Dividing the Reservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dividing the Reservation write by Nicole Tonkovich. This book was released on 2021-06-18. Dividing the Reservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alice Cunningham Fletcher was both formidable and remarkable. A pioneering ethnologist who penetrated occupations dominated by men, she was the first woman to hold an endowed chair at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnology--during a time the institution did not admit female students. She helped write the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 that reshaped American Indian policy, and became one of the first women to serve as a federal Indian agent, working with the Omahas, the Winnebagos, and finally the Nez Perces. Charged with supervising the daunting task of resurveying, verifying, and assigning nearly 757,000 acres of the Nez Perce Reservation, Fletcher also had to preserve land for transportation routes and restrain white farmers and stockmen who were claiming prime properties. She sought to “give the best lands to the best Indians,” but was challenged by the Idaho terrain, the complex ancestries of the Nez Perces, and her own misperceptions about Native life. A commanding presence, Fletcher worked from a specialized tent that served as home and office, traveling with copies of laws, rolls of maps, and blank plats. She spent four summers on the project, completing close to 2,000 allotments. This book is a collection of letters and diaries Fletcher wrote during this work. Her writing illuminates her relations with the key players in the allotment, as well as her internal conflicts over dividing the reservation. Taken together, these documents offer insight into how federal policy was applied, resisted, and amended in this early application of the Dawes General Allotment Act.
Dividing the Reservation
Dividing the Reservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dividing the Reservation write by Alice Cunningham Fletcher. This book was released on 2016. Dividing the Reservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: Alice C. Fletcher in the field -- Part I. Theory meets practice: diary and correspondence, 1889 -- Part II. An ethnologist in paradise: diary and correspondence, 1890 -- Part II. "The nearest to hell I can imagine": diary and correspondence, 1891 -- Part IV. Unfinished business: diary and correspondence, 1892 -- Afterword: "No more gov't work.
Dividing the Reservation
Dividing the Reservation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dividing the Reservation write by Alice C. Fletcher. This book was released on 2016. Dividing the Reservation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction: Alice C. Fletcher in the field -- Part I. Theory meets practice: diary and correspondence, 1889 -- Part II. An ethnologist in paradise: diary and correspondence, 1890 -- Part II. "The nearest to hell I can imagine": diary and correspondence, 1891 -- Part IV. Unfinished business: diary and correspondence, 1892 -- Afterword: "No more gov't work.
The Allotment Plot
The Allotment Plot - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Allotment Plot write by Nicole Tonkovich. This book was released on 2022-04. The Allotment Plot available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 in large part to the agency of the Nez Perce people themselves throughout the allotment process. The Nez Perce were actively involved in negotiating the terms under which allotment would proceed and were simultaneously engaged in ongoing efforts to protect their stories and other cultural properties from institutional appropriation by the allotment agent, Alice C. Fletcher, a respected anthropologist, and her photographer and assistant, E. Jane Gay. The Nez Perce engagement in this process laid a foundation for the long-term survival of the tribe and its culture. Making use of previously unexamined archival sources, Fletcher's letters, Gay's photographs and journalistic accounts, oral tribal histories, and analyses of performances such as parades and verbal negotiations, Tonkovich assembles a masterful portrait of Nez Perce efforts to control their own future and provides a vital counternarrative of the allotment period, which is often portrayed as disastrous to Native polities.
With the Nez Perces
With the Nez Perces - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook With the Nez Perces write by E. Jane Gay. This book was released on 1981. With the Nez Perces available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 encounters with feuding agents, hostile white squatters, and a Nez Perce tribe divided over and puzzled by this latest government program.
