Books by Alice C. Fletcher

A complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life.

Conveys the pleasure and meaning of music and play and rhythmic movement for American Indians. This book features activities that are adapted from ceremonials and sports. It includes a 'drama in five dances' celebrating the life of corn.

A collaboration of a pioneering anthropologist and a prominent Omaha ethnologist. This volume takes up the language, social life, music, religion, warfare, healing practices, and death and burial customs of the Omahas.

A comprehensive study of Omaha, a Native American tribe. It deals with tribal origins and early history, beliefs about the environment, rites pertaining to the individual, tribal organization and government, the sacred pole, and the quest for food.

One of the rituals practiced by Native American groups focused on the calumet, a sacred pipe with a feathered shaft. The Calumet Ceremony was a ritual through which members of another tribe were adopted. This book describes in detail the intricate rhythm and structure of the ceremony.

Presents a collection of non-Occidental music, all from a single tribe. This book divides the songs into three categories: religious ones, sung by a certain class; social ones, involving dances and games; and ones to be sung singly, including dream songs, love songs, captive songs, prayer songs, death songs, sweat lodge songs, and songs of thanks.