Incoming correspondence
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 1: Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1874-1923
label: Date
content: bulk 1882-1923
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4558, Subseries 1.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material is arranged chronologically. Dates are non-inclusive.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Correspondents include government officials, philanthropists and others involved in contemporary Native American issues, informants, colleagues and collaborators. 

Many items in this subseries reflect Fletcher's involvement in contemporary Native American issues. The majority of correspondence from 1881 to 1891 relates to Fletcher's efforts to gain property rights and education for Native Americans and the Omaha tribe in particular. Also of interest are letters from 1885 and 1886 regarding the Omaha tribe's plans for self-government. 

Other materials in this subseries reflect Fletcher's ethnographic work and professional affiliations. Ample correspondence from informants and colleagues is found from 1891 to 1918. 

The subjects of some of this correspondence may overlap with items in subseries 1.3. For more information and materials regarding Fletcher's involvement with the School of American Archaeology and her relationship with Edgar Hewett, see subseries 1.6. Further correspondence from Fletcher's years as a Special Agent for the Bureau of Indian Affairs may be found elsewhere in the collection (subseries 1.3). 

Letters from Francis La Flesche are located in a separate subseries (1.4), but letters between Fletcher and other La Flesche family members, including Rosalie La Flesche Farley, are located in this subseries, particularly between the dates 1885 and 1887.