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Indian Story and Song
"Indian Story and Song" from Alice Cunningham Fletcher. American ethnologist (1838-1923).
A Study of Omaha Indian Music
"Among the Indians, music envelopes like an atmosphere every religious, tribal, and social ceremony as well as every personal experience. There is not a phase of life that does not find expression in song," wrote Alice C. Fletcher. The famous anthropologist published A Study of Omaha Indian Music in 1893. With the single exception of an 1882 dissertation, it was the first serious study ever made of American Indian music. And it was the largest collection of non-Occidental music published to date, ninety-two songs, all from a single tribe. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, her Omaha coworker and adopted son, divided the songs into three categories: religious ones, to be sung by a certain class...
A Stranger in Her Native Land
Recreates the life of the nineteenth-century American anthropologist, focusing on her efforts to improve the conditions under which the American Indians existed
Life Among the Indians
Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork a...
Prophets and Ghosts
A searching account of nineteenth-century salvage anthropology, an effort to preserve the culture of “vanishing” Indigenous peoples through dispossession of the very communities it was meant to protect. In the late nineteenth century, anthropologists, linguists, archaeologists, and other chroniclers began amassing Indigenous cultural objects—crafts, clothing, images, song recordings—by the millions. Convinced that Indigenous peoples were doomed to disappear, collectors donated these objects to museums and universities that would preserve and exhibit them. Samuel Redman dives into the archive to understand what the collectors deemed the tradition of the “vanishing Indian” and what...
Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs
In Alice C. Fletcher's 'Indian Games and Dances with Native Songs', readers are transported into the rich and vibrant world of Native American culture through a detailed exploration of traditional games, dances, and songs. This book not only serves as a valuable resource for those interested in indigenous practices, but also as a comprehensive guide to understanding the importance of these cultural traditions. Fletcher's writing style is both informative and engaging, providing readers with a deep insight into the customs and rituals of various Native American tribes. Through her meticulous research and respect for indigenous knowledge, the author sheds light on the significance of preservin...
