Editing Sarah Winnemucca (section)

==Lectures and writing==
[[Image:Sarah-winnemucca.jpg|thumb|Sarah Winnemucca]]
In 1883, the Hopkinses traveled east, where Winnemucca delivered nearly 300 lectures throughout major cities of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, seeking to heighten awareness of injustice against Native Americans.<ref name="Eves" /> The press reported her talks and sometimes referred to her as the "Paiute Princess"{{sfn|Canfield|1988|p=171}} or "[[Indian princess]]".<ref name="Eves" />

In [[Boston]], Winnemucca met the sisters [[Elizabeth Peabody]] and [[Mary Peabody Mann]], the latter married to the educator [[Horace Mann]]; they began to promote her speaking career. In addition, the two women helped her to compile and prepare her lecture materials for publication as ''Life Among the Piutes''. Her book was published in 1883, the "first known autobiography written by a Native American woman"<ref name="MN"/> and the first U.S. [[copyright registration]] secured by a Native American woman.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maloney |first1=Wendi |title=Native American Heritage Month: Celebrating Sarah Winnemucca |url=https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2017/11/native-american-heritage-month-celebrating-sarah-winnemucca |website=Library of Congress Blog |access-date=December 20, 2017 |date=November 2, 2017}}</ref>

After returning to Nevada in 1884, Winnemucca spent a year lecturing in San Francisco. When she returned again to Pyramid Lake, she and her brother built a school for Indian children at [[Lovelock, Nevada]], in order to promote the Paiute culture and language. The Peabody Indian School, named for their benefactor [[Mary Peabody Mann]] in Boston, operated for a couple of years.{{sfn|Canfield|1988|p=232}}  Changes in federal policy following what was considered the success of the [[Carlisle Indian School]] prompted the federal government to promote education for Native American children at English-language boarding schools. Winnemucca's school was closed in 1887 and the children were transferred to a facility in [[Grand Junction, Colorado]].<ref name="omer"/>

The [[Dawes Severalty Act]] of 1887 required allotment of communal lands on reservations to individual households to force assimilation of tribes.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Washburn|first1=Kathleen|title=Dawes Severalty Act|url=http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199827251/obo-9780199827251-0149.xml|website=Oxford Bibliographies|access-date=19 January 2018|ref=ox}}</ref>