Alaska
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: 1886-1887
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4558, Subseries 3.17
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content: Archival materials
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content: The material is arranged chronologically by document type.
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content: Under the direction of the U.S. Office of Education, Alice Fletcher ventured to Alaska in 1886 and provided the government with a report on "Indian Education and Civilization" which summarized her findings and recommendations for Native education in the territory.

Her field notebooks include a census, a petition of teachers for better native education and loose notes and drawings from the voyage. Also included is correspondence between Sheldon Jackson and William Thaw, dated 1883, regarding plans for establishing the trip to Alaska. 

Fletcher conducted ethnographic research on her voyage, and, following her return, communicated with informants about Alaskan totems.