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The list Native American women memoirists includes Sarah Winnemucca, Elissa Washuta, Narcissa Chisholm Owen and Ernestine Hayes. The list consists of 5 members.
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    Sarah Winnemucca
    Northern Paiute author, activist, and educator (c. 1844 –1891)
    Sarah Winnemucca
    Overview: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (born Thocmentony, meaning "Shell Flower; also seen as "Tocmetone" in Northern Paiute; c.– October 16, 1891) was a Northern Paiute author, activist and educator.
    Date of birth: 1844
    Date of death: 17 October 1891
    Age: 47 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Activist
    Gender: Female
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    19th-century memoirists 181T
    American women memoirists 620T
    19th-century philanthropists 1,011T
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    Elissa Washuta
    American author
    Elissa Washuta
    Overview: Elissa Washuta (b. 1985) is a Native American author from the Cowlitz people of Washington State. She has written two memoirs about her young adulthood, Starvation Mode: a Memoir of Food, Consumption and ...
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    21st-century American memoirists 261T
    21st-century Native American women 105T
    American women memoirists 642T
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    Narcissa Chisholm Owen
    American artist (1831–1911)
    Narcissa Chisholm Owen
    Overview: Narcissa Chisholm Owen (October 3, 1831 – July 11, 1911) was an American educator, memoirist and artist of the late 19th and early 20th century. She was the daughter of Old Settler Cherokee Chief Thomas ...
    Date of birth: 3 October 1831
    Date of death: 11 July 1911
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Painter
    Gender: Female
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    Lucy Thompson
    Yurok author from California
    Lucy Thompson
    Overview: Lucy Thompson (1853-1932) was a Native American author known for her book To the American Indian: Reminiscences of a Yurok Woman. Written in 1916, the book is intended to preserve her people's stories ...
    Date of birth: 1856
    Date of death: 1932
    Age: 75 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    Ernestine Hayes
    American writer
    Ernestine Hayes
    Overview: Ernestine Hayes (born 1945 Juneau, Alaska) is a Tlingit writer and professor in Juneau, Alaska. (Tlingit) memoirist. Hayes belongs to the Kaagwaantaan, or wolf clan, on the Eagle side of the Tlingit nation ...
    Date of birth: 1945
    Age: 79
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    American women memoirists 620T
    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    American Book Award winners 440T
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