Alice Cunningham Fletcher papers
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
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1873-1925
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS4558, Series 1
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content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Series 1 is divided into the following 10 subseries: 1.1) Incoming correspondence, 1874-1923 (bulk 1882-1923); 1.2) Outgoing correspondence, 1873-1921; 1.3) Correspondence on specific subjects, 1881-1925; 1.4) Correspondence between Fletcher and La Flesche, 1895-1922; 1.5) Publications, 1882-1920; 1.6) Organizational records, 1904-1921; 1.7) General anthropological notes, undated; 1.8) Lectures, circa 1878-1910; 1.9) Diaries, 1881-1922; 1.10) Biography and memorabilia, 1878-1925.
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content: The papers of Alice Fletcher include materials that reflect her allotment work among Native Americans and her many anthropological investigations and organizational affiliations. Additionally, Fletcher's early ethnographic research, conducted under the tutelage of F. W. Putnam at Harvard University's Peabody Museum, is well represented. Little material predating 1879 can be found in the series. 

Items of interest include Fletcher's early correspondence in which she outlines her views on the contemporary problems facing Native Americans, as well as her early historical lectures, which illustrate the evolution of her interest in ethnology and archaeology. 

Materials related to Fletcher's ethnographic work among the Nez Perce, Omaha, Pawnee, Ponca, and Winnebago tribes, as well as her government-sponsored trip to Alaska, may be found in series 3.