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. Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-396) and index.

Part I. Camping with the Sioux -- Part II. The Omahas at Home.