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A stranger in her native land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians

Joan T. Mark
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • PART 1 Growing Up in Victorian America
    • One. Early Years: "The terrible story" (page 3)
    • Two. Woman's Clubs: or, "What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?" (page 16)
    • Three. On the Lecture Circuit (page 29)
  • PART 2 Mother to the Indians
    • Four. "What I am toward is difficult" (page 45)
    • Five. Camping with the Sioux (page 53)
    • Six. Among the Omahas (page 64)
    • Seven. Indian Religious Ceremonies on the Great Plains (page 79)
    • Eight. Allotting Land to the Omahas (page 88)
    • Nine. "Made quite a heroine of" (page 101)
    • Ten. The Omaha Aftermath---A House Divided (page 122)
    • Eleven. Francis (page 138)
  • PART 3 Professional Career
    • Twelve. A Year with the Winnebagos (page 157)
    • Thirteen. Among the Nez Perces (page 169)
    • Fourteen. "My honor is involved in getting this done" (page 187)
    • Fifteen. A Fellowship for a Woman at Harvard (page 203)
    • Sixteen. "The music comes from beyond this life" (page 216)
    • Seventeen. Disappointment at the World's Columbian Exposition (page 233)
    • Eighteen. Life in Washington (page 245)
    • Nineteen. "No people can be helped if they are absolutely unrooted" (page 265)
  • PART 4 Abroad and at Home
    • Twenty. "Awful scene at my bed" (page 281)
    • Twenty-One. Mexico (page 296)
    • Twenty-Two. "My life is over" (page 307)
    • Twenty-Three. "Be my own dear Francis always" (page 324)
    • Twenty-Four. "There is no story in my life" (page 332)
  • Notes (page 357)
  • Bibliography of Works by Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche (page 397)
  • Selected Bibliography (page 405)
  • Index (page 417)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
WRB 6.12 (Sep. 1989): 21 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4020589
ISIS 82.2 (Jun. 1991): 389 http://www.jstor.org/stable/234895
Citable Link
Published: c1988
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780803281561 (paper)
  • 9780803231283 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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