Editing Sarah Winnemucca (section)

==Move to Yakama Reservation==
[[Image:Sarahwin.jpg|thumb|Sarah Winnemucca, performing as "Princess Winnemucca", daughter of Chief Winnemucca]]
Following the Bannock War, the Northern Paiute bands were ordered from Nevada to the [[Yakama Indian Reservation]] (in eastern [[Washington Territory]]), where they endured great deprivation. A total of 543 Paiute were interned in what has been described as a "concentration camp."<ref name="omer"/>

Winnemucca accompanied them to serve as a translator. Since she had an official job, she was not required to live on a reservation. Outraged by the harsh conditions forced on the Paiute, she began to lecture across [[California]] and [[Nevada]] on the plight of her people. During the winter of 1879 and 1880, she, her father, and two other Winnemucca visited Washington, D.C. to lobby for release of the Paiute from the Yakama Reservation.<ref name="omer"/> They gained permission from [[United States Secretary of the Interior|Secretary of the Interior]], [[Carl Schurz]], for the Paiute to be allowed to return to Malheur, at their own expense.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/oct14.html |title=Today in History: October 14|website=Library of Congress|access-date=11 April 2010}}</ref> Instead, the government decided to "discontinue" the Malheur Reservation in 1879, closing it.

{{blockquote|Knowing the temper of the people through whom they must pass, still smarting from the barbarities of the war two years previous, and that the Paiutes, utterly destitute of everything, must subsist themselves on their route by pillage, I refused permission for them to depart... and soon after, on being more correctly informed of the state of affairs, the Hon. Secretary revoked his permission though no determination as to their permanent location was arrived at. This was a great disappointment to the Paiutes and the greatest caution and care was necessary in dealing with them.|James H. Wilbur, [[Yakama]] Agent, ''Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Year 1881''<ref>{{citation|first1=James H. |last1=Wilbur |title=Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for the Year 1881|pages= 174, 175}}</ref>}}