Life among the IndiansAlice C. Fletcher (18381923), 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. Life among the Indians, Fletchers popularized autobiographical memoir written in 188687 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 188182,