Life Among the Paiutes is an 1882 autobiographical narrative by Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins. In the work, Winnemucca directly addresses the reader to establish her uthority an credibility, writing ____
Which quotation from Life Among the Paiutes most effectively illustrates the claim?
"My dear reader, I have not lived in this world for over thirty or forty years for nothing, and I know what I am talking about."
A
"I was born somewhere near 1844, but am not sure of the precise time."
B
"Oh, dear readers, these soldiers had gone only sixty miles away to Muddy Lake, where my people were then living and fishing."
C
"But how can I describe the scene that followed? Some of you, dear readers, can imagine."