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The allotment plot : Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce survivance /

"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 faile...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Tonkovich, Nicole
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2012.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: Beginnings. Introduction: after the end of Nez Perce History ; A false beginning ; Another beginning.
  • Part 2: Land. Introduction: map and territory, space and place ; "The square idea" ; Ethnographic knowledge and native cartography.
  • Part 3: Citizens. Introduction: E Pluribus Unum ; Technologies of citizenship ; Fictions of coherence.
  • Part 4: Endings. Introduction: "If the work is ever to be finished" ; Irresolutions and incompletions ; The ends of Nez Perce Allotment.
  • Part 5: Afterward. Introduction: "Double pictures have met us all along the way" ; After-words ; After-images.