" Disciplinary Spaces "                   

          Concept from Rosalyn Collings Eves, Southern Utah University, thank you

• Native culture does not generally circulate print, they circulate spoken stories. Winnemucca speaks a new language in white colonial culture just with publishing.  Cover
• Winnemucca bases identity in a contact zone, where cultures of white colonists and indigenous peoples were crossed p. 8 and 9
• Winnemucca constantly challenges herself with double consciousness, though the concept had not yet been defined p. 6 and 7
• Sarah's people likely heard about the Donner Party and various settlements in the area of Pyramid Lake and Washoe Valley because of the contact zone p. 10 and 11
• Sarah's father, Chief Winnemucca, never trusted colonists the way her grandfather Truckee did. p. 14 and 15
• A letter from John Frémont, after the Mexican War was called a "rag-friend" by Chief Truckee, and he constantly used it for his credibility to any other white people. p. 18 and 19
• The tribe did not understand any concept of enslavement that existed in the colonist's world. p. 22 and 23
• Sarah began to identify with white culture after her experiences in school, but always kept a distrust because of the struggles her people faced. p. 26 and 27
• Sarah discusses what would be the victorian "Hypocritical Religious Gloss" by settlers that she laments (Zanjani, 124) p. 50 and 51
• Malheur Reservation Experience: Agent Rinehart at the Malheur Reservation provided the Piutes with little rations and treated them poorly, igniting Sarah's anger against the system. p. 54 and 55
• Example of Sarah's double-consciousness thought process. p. 28 and 29
• The Winnemucca's goo to a ferry near Stockton, run by Hiram Scott and Jacob Bonsall at the beginning of the narrative. The trip was a major impression on Sarah’s first experience with settlers.
• Native people were susceptible to the many European diseases brought by white colonists, though the contact zone p. 40 and 41