Resistance through reinserting self-hood and human sentimentality in the violent political space.

(1) "Winnemucca refused to allow her hosts either to incorporate or reject American Indians in part by asserting a tribal sovereignty that was inconsistent with the US goal of incorporation" (92).

(2) Reflecting on a passage where Winnemucca discusses on of the delegations and rejects how it was construed to the public: "In this instance Winnemucca challenges the rigid parameters of the congressional transcript, so that the colonial document comes to illustrate not only the US attempt to contain her but its difficulty in doing so" (93).

(3) Carpenter in Lost (And Gained) in Translation discusses Winnemucca's use of sentimental rhetoric is to persuade white audiences of shared human dignity. She argues that this happens when Winnemucca inserts herself in "human" emotional situations. More on this later:

"She then assumes the whites have no concept of shared property; she has to be assured by her mother that the daughter of a white man will not be whipped for sitting in his chair. Winnemucca takes this concept of individual ownership to its logical extreme, demonstrating how much it contrasts with the Paiute model of familial/national property. Thus, her narrative serves as a subtle critique of this individualist economy even as she inserts herself within it" (113)