Nez Perce
name: label: Collection Creator
content: La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932
label: Collection Creator
content: Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923
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content: MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers
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content: MS 4558 Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche papers / Series 3: Papers relating to the anthropological research of Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1889-1909
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4558, Subseries 3.20
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material is arranged chronologically by document type.
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content: Fletcher collected ethnographic information while allotting land to the Nez Perce for the Bureau of Indian Affairs between 1889 and 1892. She never published on the Nez Perce, although she did maintain correspondence with some informants for years after finishing her allotment work.

This subseries includes items sent to Fletcher by Kate McBeth, a missionary among the Nez Perce who provided Fletcher with much information. For other letters from Kate McBeth, see Fletcher's incoming correspondence (subseries 1.1).

In 1926, Francis La Flesche submitted Alice Fletcher's manuscript on the Nez Perce to J. W. Fewkes for publication by the Bureau of American Ethnology; Fewkes decided against publishing the material (Fewkes to La Flesche, 10-4-26, in La Flesche general correspondence). F. W. Hodge appears to have annotated one of the drafts.

Fletcher's informant, Billy Williams, drew a map titled "Nez Perce Country," which is located in the map case (drawer 1, photo mounted in corner, neg. no. 55,020). The collection also includes four negatives of Williams (BAE neg. nos. 55,021 a, b, c).