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the Online Edition
The text of this online edition is based on two journals kept by Alice
Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory
in 1881. A typewritten copy of Fletcher's journal was subsequently
produced by Francis La Flesche, who omitted small portions of
the original journals not relating to Fletcher's trip, perhaps
at her request. The typescript was scanned with optical character
recognition software at the National Anthropological Archives
in November 1999, then proofed against the original manuscript
to correct minor errors in the typescript. All versions of the
journals are available to researchers in their original form
in the National Anthropological Archives.
The online edition includes 26 of the 61 drawings in Fletcher's
diary; the remainder were too fragile to digitize. The captions
included here derive from the drawings themselves or from a
list produced by Francis La Flesche.
Most of the photographs of Nebraska and South Dakota are from
a collection known as Bureau of American Ethnology-United States
National Museum Photographs of American Indians (Photo Lot 24).
Other photographs are from the Papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
and Francis La Flesche and Glass Negatives of Indians. The photograph
on the exhibit home page is a detail from an image taken in
Cherry Creek, South Dakota in 1880 (Photo Lot 24, BAE 23, Inv.
00510700).
Handwriting that could not be confidently transcribed has been
inserted within [square brackets].
Credits
Designed and produced by Robert Leopold (National Anthropological
Archives, Smithsonian Institution)
Foreword and photograph selection by Joy Elizabeth Rohde (Department
of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
Digital imaging by Becky Malinsky (National Anthropological
Archives, Smithsonian Institution)
Bibliography of Works by Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche
is from A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and
the American Indians by Joan Mark, by permission of the
University of Nebraska Press. Copyright © 1988, University
of Nebraska Press.
Thomas Henry Tibbles' recollections of Alice Fletcher appear
in Buckskin and Blanket Days: Memoirs of a Friend of the
Indians. New York: Doubleday, 1957.
The photograph of Thomas Henry Tibbles is courtesy of the Nebraska
State Historical Society.
All other photographs and drawings are from the National Anthropological
Archives.
Copyright © 2001 Smithsonian Institution.
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