Sarah Winnemucca (1844 – 1891), a member of the Nevada Paiutes, led an extraordi

Sarah Winnemucca (1844 – 1891), a member of the Nevada Paiutes, led an extraordinary life in which she served as U.S. Army messenger and translator, an extensive lecturer in western and eastern cities, and wrote Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims, which was the first book published by a Native American woman. She spoke out extensively on the reservation system and U.S. Indian policy, as well as on racialized stereotypes of Native women.
Assignment:
Read the following excerpt from Winnemucca’s book Life Among the Paiutes:
“We have a republic as well as you. The council-tent is our Congress, and anybody can speak who has anything to say, women and all. The are always interested in what their husbands are doing and thinking about. And they take some part even in the wars. They are always near at hand when fighting is going on, ready to snatch their husbands up and carry them off if wounded or killed….[Women] faithfully keep with [their husbands] in all the dangers they can share. They not only take care of children together, but they do everything together…Marriage is a sweet thing when people love each other. If women could go into your Congress I think justice would soon be done to the Indians…”
Then, in a minimum of one (1) well-developed paragraph, answer the following question:
Based on Winnemucca’s writings, what can you infer about the role of women in Paiute society? What do you think Winnemucca means when she writes “If women could go into your Congress I think justice would soon be done to the Indians…”?