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- ↑ Omer Stewart, Review: "Gae Whitney Canfield, 'Sarah Winnemucca of the Northern Paiutes', Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma, 1983", Journal of California and Great Basin Anthropology, 5(2), 1983, accessed 12 February 2014
- 1 2 3 4 5 Lukens, M. (1998). Her "Wrongs and Claims": Sarah Winnemucca's Strategic Narratives of Abuse. Wíčazo Ša Review, 93-108.
- 1 2 3 Lape, Noreen Groover. "I Would Rather Be with My People, but Not to Live with Them as They Live": Cultural Liminality and Double Consciousness in Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's" Life among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims." American Indian Quarterly (1998): 259-279.
- ↑ Winnemucca, Sarah (1883). Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims. G.P. Putnam's Sons.