Women in the West

Alice Fletcher and the American Indians

By: Joan Mark

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Paperback | 1 January 1989

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Called "Her Majesty" because of her resemblance to Queen Victoria and known as "the measuring woman" among the Indians whose land allotments she administered, Alice Fletcher (1838–1923) commanded respect from both friend and foe. She was the foremost woman anthropologist in the United States in the nineteenth century and instrumental in the adoption of the policy of severalty that dominated Indian affairs in the 1880s. This is the full and intimate story of a woman who, as she grew in understanding of Indian ways, came to recognize that she was the one who was alien, a stranger in her native land.

Joan Mark recreates the long and active life of Alice Fletcher from diaries, correspondence, and other records, placing her achievements for the first time in a feminist perspective. Sustained by a sense of mission, Alice Fletcher challenged her society's definition of what women could be and do.

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Preface	p. xiii
Growing Up in Victorian America	p. 1
One Early Years: "The Terrible Story"	p. 3
Two Woman's Clubs; Or, "What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?"	p. 17
Two Woman's Clubs; Or, "What Shall We Do with Our Daughters?"	p. 30
Mother to the Indians	p. 43
Four "What I Am Toward is Difficult"	p. 45
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 54
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 65
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 80
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 89
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 102
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 123
Five Camping with the Sioux	p. 139
Professional Career	p. 155
Twelve a Year with the Winnebagos	p. 157
Fourteen "My Honor is Involved in Getting This Done"	p. 188
Fourteen "My Honor is Involved in Getting This Done"	p. 204
Fourteen "My Honor is Involved in Getting This Done"	p. 217
Fourteen "My Honor is Involved in Getting This Done"	p. 234
Fourteen "My Honor is Involved in Getting This Done"	p. 246
Fourteen "My Honor is Involved in Getting This Done"	p. 266
Abroad and at Home	p. 279
Twenty "Awful Scene at My Bed"	p. 281
Twenty-One Mexico	p. 297
Twenty-One Mexico	p. 308
Twenty-One Mexico	p. 325
Twenty-One Mexico	p. 333
Notes	p. 357
Bibliography of Works by Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche	p. 397
Selected Bibliography	p. 405
Index	p. 417
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