With the Nez Perces - Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-1892

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.

Info autore

Frederick E. Hoxie is director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian, Newberry Library. Joan T. Mark is the author of A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians, also a Bison Book.

Riassunto

In 1889 the US 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, and photographer. In this collection of her letters, Gay describes their encounters with feuding agents, hostile white squatters, and a Nez Perce tribe divided over and puzzled by this latest government programme.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: E Jane Gay, E. Jane Gay
• Con la collaborazione di: Frederick E Hoxie (Editore), Frederick E. Hoxie (Editore), Joan T Mark (Editore), Joan T. Mark (Editore)
• Editore: Bison Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.1987
• EAN: 9780803270244
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-7024-4
• Pagine: 228
• Dimensioni: 134 mm x 204 mm x 16 mm
• Peso: 286 g
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Etnologia > Etnologia