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Place-Based Rhetoric

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Settler incursions at Pyramid Lake define this work, as they caused the Winnemucca's existence between cultures and the reservation system as well. Those that Findlay contemplates specifically led Winnemucca to a central guiding principle of her rhetorical means. Where she was was a strong foundation in how she engaged in activism. (Eves)

A connection to lands is sacred to native peoples. Primarily, Sarah had to first navigate out of her original native culture (in the first act of Turner's concept of liminality) by understanding how her location mattered to her rhetorical means. It was the focal point of her activism on reservation policy. She travelled with her people in the areas of Pyramid Lake that you can see pictured in the map and called Pyramid Lake her home. (Zanjani) It was then taken away by colonialists in a couple of different ways. Settlers began to use the land for farms and homes. Eventually, Piaute people were moved to the reservation area at Malheur, in Oregon.

So Sarah's rhetorical fight was to get back lands stolen by reservations. To reclaim her place. Further, Eves posits that her location and specifically "position in disciplinary spaces"  was not only a goal for Winnemucca, but it was also a tool she recognized and used by sending letters from military forts, or leading her people in the absence of her father - the chief Winnemucca. Her background from two cultures informed her of a different cultural value colonials had of land, unlike any of her people, that made her smart in her communication methods with them.

*This analysis is careful not to generalize Sarah's people too often just as "natives," since the Piutes and Washoes would not consider themselves the same people, for example.*

 



The pages of the Winnemucca selection, Chapters 1 and 2, are laid out here for reference. If you need to, you may click any one of them to "turn" to that page at any time. Because, this little note will be in each page of the Winnemucca path!

Table of Contents, Page 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57

Contents of this annotation:

  1. Table of Contents, and Pg. 5
  2. Pg. 42, and 43
  3. Pg. 52, and 53
  4. Pg. 56, and 57
  5. Pg. 8, and 9
  6. Pg. 10, and 11
  7. Pg. 20, and 21
  8. Pg. 38, and 39

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  1. Chapters 1 and 2 Nathan Barnes

Contents of this tag:

  1. Chapters 1 and 2
  2. Intercultural Considerations
  3. Self-determination
  4. Travel