| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 418 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"The Allotment Plot reexamines the history of allotment on the Nez Perce Reservation from 1889 to 1892 to account for and emphasize the Nez Perce side of the story. By including Nez Perce responses to allotment, Nicole Tonkovich argues that the assimilationist aims of allotment ultimately failed due in large part to the agency of the Nez Perce people themselves throughout the allotment process. The Nez Perce were actively involved in negotiating the terms under which allotment would proceed and simultaneously engaged in ongoing efforts to protect their stories and other cultural properties from institutional appropriation by the allotment agent, Alice C. Fletcher, who was a respected anthropologist, and her photographer and assistant, E. Jane Gay. The Nez Perce engagement in this process laid a foundation for the long-term survival of the tribe and its culture. Making use of previously unknown archival sources, Fletcher's letters, Gay's photographs and journalistic accounts, oral tribal histories, and analyses of performances such as parades and verbal negotiations, Tonkovich assembles a masterful portrait of Nez Perce efforts to control their own future and provides a vital counternarrative of the allotment period, which is often portrayed as disastrous to Native polities"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923 -- Correspondence.
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Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923. |
| Genre/Form |
Correspondence.
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| Subject |
Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919 -- Photograph collections.
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Photograph collections. |
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Fletcher, Alice C., 1838-1923 (Fletcher, Alice Cunningham) -- Correspondence -- Photograph collections. |
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Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919. |
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Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919 -- Correspondence -- Photograph collections. |
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Nez Percé Indians -- Land tenure.
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Nez Percé Indians -- Land tenure. |
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Nez Percé Indians. |
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Nez Percé Indians -- History -- 19th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Nez Percé Indians -- Government relations.
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Nez Percé Indians -- Government relations. |
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Indian allotments -- Idaho -- Nez Percé Indian Reservation -- History -- 19th century.
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Indian allotments. |
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Idaho -- Nez Percé Indian Reservation. |
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Allotment of land -- Idaho -- Nez Percé Indian Reservation -- History -- 19th century.
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Allotment of land. |
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Nez Percé Indian Reservation (Idaho)
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| Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Records and correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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Personal correspondence.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Tonkovich, Nicole. Allotment plot. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012 9780803271371 (DLC) 2012011621 (OCoLC)785862665 |
| ISBN |
9780803271524 (electronic book) |
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0803271522 (electronic book) |
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9781283629102 |
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1283629100 |
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9780803271371 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0803271379 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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