With the Nez Perces Alice Fletcher in the Field, 1889-92 |
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| Author:
| Gay, E. Jane |
| Editor:
| Hoxie, Frederick E.
Mark, Joan T. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8032-7024-4 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1987 |
| Publisher: | University of Nebraska Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $15.95 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.