Alice M Fletcher

Indian Story and Song from North America

The Hako: Song, Pipe, and Unity in a Pawnee Calumet Ceremony

The Omaha Tribe

Indian Games and Dances With Native Songs

The Omaha Tribe

The Omaha Tribe

The Omaha Tribe

Indian Games and Dances With Native Songs: Arranged from American Indian Ceremonials and Sports

Alice Cunningham Fletcher

Alice Cunningham Fletcher (March 15, 1838, Havana - April 6, 1923, Washington, D.C.) was an American ethnologist who studied and documented American Indian ...

The Allotment Plot: Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce Survivance

The Allotment Plot reexamines the history of allotment on the Nez Perce Reservation from 1889 to 1892 to account for and emphasize the Nez Perce side of the story. By including Nez Perce responses to allotment, Nicole Tonkovich argues that the assimilationist aims of allotment ultimately failed due ...

Dividing the Reservation: Alice C. Fletcher's Nez Perce Allotment Diaries and Letters, 1889 - 1892

Ethnologist Alice C. Fletcher helped write the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 and became one of the first women to serve as a federal Indian agent. A commanding presence, she spent four summers with the Nez Perce, completing close to 2,000 allotments. Charged with supervising the daunting task...

The Supernatural Among the Omaha Tribe of Indians (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Supernatural Among the Omaha Tribe of Indians The myths seem to indicate a linking together of all forms of life throughout nature. The various animals are endowed with speech, and address each other by terms of relationship, and are so addressed by man. The beaver, eagle. And other...

The Omaha Tribe, Volume 1

The Omaha Tribe is considered by some anthropologists to be the most important and comprehensive study ever written about a Native American tribe. First published in 1911 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, this classic treatise is based on twenty-nine years of study and observation in ...

The Omaha Tribe, Volume 2

Originally published in 1911 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, The Omaha Tribe is an irreplaceable classic, the collaboration of a pioneering anthropologist and a prominent Omaha ethnologist.Volume II takes up the language, social life, music, religion, warfare, healing practices, and death and b...

Heroines of service: Mary Lyon, Alice Freeman Palmer, Clara Barton, Frances Willard, Julia Ward Howe, Anna Shaw, Mary Antin, Alice C. Fletcher, Mary Slessor of Calabar, Madame Curie, Jane Addams

This book was digitized and reprinted from the collections of the University of California Libraries. It was produced from digital images created through the libraries’ mass digitization efforts. The digital images were cleaned and prepared for printing through automated processes. Despite the clean...

A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (Women in the West)

Called "Her Majesty" because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as "the measuring woman" among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838–1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the ...

With the Nez Perces: Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92

In 1889 the U.S. government sent the anthropologist Alice Fletcher to Idaho to allot the Nez Perce Reservation. She was accompanied by E. Jane Gay, who served as cook, housekeeper, photographer, and general factotum. In this collection of her letters, Gay describes in sprightly fashion their encount...