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Author Tonkovich, Nicole.

Title The allotment plot : Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce survivance / Nicole Tonkovich
Published Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Part 1: Beginnings. Introduction: after the end of Nez Perce History ; A false beginning ; Another beginning. -- Part 2: Land. Introduction: map and territory, space and place ; "The square idea" ; Ethnographic knowledge and native cartography. -- Part 3: Citizens. Introduction: E Pluribus Unum ; Technologies of citizenship ; Fictions of coherence. -- Part 4: Endings. Introduction: "If the work is ever to be finished" ; Irresolutions and incompletions ; The ends of Nez Perce Allotment. -- Part 5: Afterward. Introduction: "Double pictures have met us all along the way" ; After-words ; After-images
Summary "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 simultaneously engaged in ongoing efforts to protect their stories and other cultural properties from institutional appropriation by the allotment agent, Alice C. Fletcher, who was 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 unknown 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"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 -- Correspondence
Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919 -- Photograph collections
SUBJECT Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919 -- Photograph collections
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 -- Correspondence
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 fast
Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919 fast
Subject Nez Percé Indians -- Land tenure
Nez Percé Indians -- History -- 19th century
Nez Percé Indians -- Government relations
Indian allotments -- Idaho -- Nez Percé Indian Reservation -- History -- 19th century
Allotment of land -- Idaho -- Nez Percé Indian Reservation -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Pacific Northwest (OR, Wash.)
HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century.
Allotment of land
Indian allotments
Nez Percé Indians
Nez Percé Indians -- Government relations
Nez Percé Indians -- Land tenure
Photograph collections
Grundeigentum
SUBJECT Nez Percé Indian Reservation (Idaho) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95004614
Subject Idaho -- Nez Percé Indian Reservation
Nez Percé Reservation
Genre/Form History
Personal correspondence
personal correspondence.
Personal correspondence.
Correspondance privée.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012011621
ISBN 9780803271524
0803271522