Dividing the Reservation: Alice C. Fletcher's Nez Perce Allotment Diaries and Letters, 1889 - 1892

Formidable and remarkable, ethnologist Alice C. Fletcher helped conceptualize the Dawes General Allotment Act of 1887 and became one of the first female federal Indian agents, spending four summers on the Nez Perce reservation. Her writing offers insight into how she and others applied, resisted, and amended federal policy, as well as her internal conflicts over dividing the reservation.