Sarah Winnemucca
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Sarah Hopkins was a Northern Paiute writer, activist, lecturer, teacher, and school organizer. Her Northern Paiute name was Thocmentony, also spelled Tocmetone, which translates as "Shell Flower".
Sarah Winnemucca
Numaga, or "Young Winnemucca", Sarah Winnemucca's cousin and war leader of the Paiute in the Pyramid Lake War
Henrys Lake
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Henrys Lake is a small, shallow alpine lake in the western United States, in eastern Idaho. Approximately 8 square miles in area, at 4 miles in length and 2 miles in width, its surface elevation is 6,
Sarah Winnemucca
…of tribes. Winnemucca spent the last four years of her life retired from public activity. She died of tuberculosis at her sister Elma Smith's home at Henry's Lake, Idaho. Anthropologist Omer C. Stewart has described Winnemucca's book about the Paiute as "one of the first and one of the most enduring ethnohistorical…
Aerial view Courtesy of Idaho Tourism
Wetlands at the west end of Henrys Lake, a breeding area for birds.