In an age when American newspapers reported on US-Indian Relations in a sporadic and biased manner, Northern Paiute educator, translator, author, and activist Sarah Winnemucca produced sustained, specific, and often sympathetic coverage. She was well aware of newspapers' power, as demonstrated by the more than four hundred newspaper items by or…

Divided into five sections, this paper traces the journalism career and personal life of Margaret Cousins. In the untitled opening section of the paper, Cousins' attitude about the role of women is explored. The statement is made that her career may be interpreted in terms of hegemony, the theory that the mass media work to encourage a shared…