Alice C. Fletcher

(1838-1923) lived at Winnebago, Thurston County. Anthropologist and Indian rights activist, known as an expert who opposed the agency system in which Native Americans were confined to reservations under control of federal authorities, helped write the Dawes Act of 1887, as first woman to hold an academic position at Harvard University she published scholarly papers on her research of the Omaha and Pawnee nations. Consult Notable American Women 1607-1950, Vol 1 (Belnap, 1971) 630-633 and Joan Mark, A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians (University of Nebraska Press, 1989) and American National Biography, Vol 8 (1999) 108-109.

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