Sioux
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: 1877-1896
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4558, Subseries 3.25
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The material is arranged chronologically by document type. Dates are non-inclusive.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Many items in this subseries reflect Fletcher and La Flesche's research on the Sioux Sun Dance, conducted from 1882 to 1896. Fletcher prepared a manuscript documenting a Sun Dance she witnessed in 1882. Fletcher's field notebook also includes drawings and notes about the Sioux elk mystery. 

Avidly opposed to the misrepresentation of Native ceremony by the uninformed, Fletcher composed an undated letter in response to an exaggerated account of the Sioux Sun Dance which is included in the folder "General papers." 

Fletcher and La Flesche also sought information about George Pettigrew's mound excavation near Sioux Falls. Correspondence regarding these materials is located elsewhere in the collection (subseries 2.12).