<i>Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims&nbsp;</i>is the first known autobiography by an a Native American woman. Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins&#39; riveting, heartbreaking memoir is both a history of the Piute Indian tribe and an account of the devastation caused to the Piute people after their first contact with white men in the nineteenth century.<br /><br />&ldquo;For students of Western American history, this book is invaluable.&rdquo; &mdash;&nbsp;<i>Journal of the West</i>.