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Sarah Winnemucca also called as Sarah Hopkins Winnemucca or Sally winnemucca , the original name is Thoc - me - tony , Thocmectony or the Tocmectone as means it shell flower . Born in c.1844 , Humboldt sink , mexico that nowin Nevada , U.S and she died on october -16 , 1891, Monida , Montana , U.S . She was the native american educator , lecturer , tribal leader and writer best known for her book "Life among teh piutes ; their wrong and claims (1883) ," Her writting , valuable for their description of Northern paiute life and for their insights into the impact of white settlement , are among the few contemporary native American works .

Winnemucca for a time was an interpreter for the reservation agent , but the appointment of a new and unsympathetic agent in 1876 ended of the relative quit onthe reservation . As the outbreak of the Bannock War in the 1878 , as she learned that her father and others that had been taken hostage and offered to help the army scout the Bannock teritory . Covering the  more than hundred miles of trail through Idaho and Oregon , winnemucca located the Bannock camp , that spirited her father and many of his companions away and returned with the valuable intelligence for the general O.O .Howard . she was scout , aide and interpreter to Howard during the resulting campaign against the Bannocks .

In 1879 she lectured in San Fransico on the plight of her tribe - many of whose members had been exiled along with belligerent Bannocks to a reservation in Washington Territory - and on the wrong perpetrated by the dishonest civilian Indian agents. Despite slanderous responses by teh agents and their friends , The Winnemucca attracted the attention of the presidents Rutherford B . Hayes . She was promised the return of her people to the Maleur reservation and a severalty allotment of the land there , but the order issued to that effects was never executed .

After ayear of teachinng in a school for the Native American children at Vancouver Barracks , Washington territory and her marriage late in 1881 to L. H Hopkins , an army officer , Winnemucca that oftenly known among whites as " the princess," went on an eastern lecture tour to arouse public opinion .Aided by the General Howard , Elizabeth peabody , and others the tour wasa success , and sales of her " Life among thepuites : their wrongs and claims raised money for Winnemucca 's expenses .she secured thousands of signature on a petition calling for the promised allotment of reservation lands to individual paiutes . congress passed a bill to that end in 1884 , but once again promises came to nothing . From 1883 to 1886 Winnemucca taught at a paiute school near Lovelock , Navada . in 1886 her husband died , and ill herself , Winnemucca moved to a sister's home in Monida , Montana , where she died in 1891 .