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1 online resource (434 pages) |
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Foreword; Prologue; Part I. Camping with the Sioux; 1. Over the Border; 2. Reporting; 3. The Welcome; 4. The Chief 's Entertainment; 5. The White Man's Shadow; 6. An Outline Chapter; 7. The Indian Woman; 8. The Woman's Society; 9. Acting out a Vision; 10. Journeying with the Indians; 11. Natives and Visitors; 12. A Religious Festival; 13. The Ghost Lodge; 14. Beef versus Men; Part II. The Omahas at Home; 15. Among the Omahas ยท; 16. The Young Mother; 17. An Indian's Story; 18. Child Life; 19. Hunting |
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20. Winter and War21. Friends and Lovers; 22. The Make-Believe White Men; 23. The Schoolboys; 24. Our Land; 25. Starting Afresh; 26. The Sacred Pipes; Appendix; List of Abbreviations; Notes; Sources Documenting Fletcher's Fieldworkamong the Omahas and Sioux; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it F |
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Print version record |
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Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
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Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
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Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 fast |
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Women anthropologists -- Great Plains -- Biography
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Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs
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Omaha Indians -- Social life and customs.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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Dakota Indians -- Social life and customs
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Omaha Indians -- Social life and customs
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Women anthropologists
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Great Plains
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Biographies
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Electronic book
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Scherer, Joanna C
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DeMallie, Raymond J., 1946-2021
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| ISBN |
9780803249578 |
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0803249578 |
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