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Camping With the Sioux: Fieldwork Diary of Alice Cunningham Fletcher
URL: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fletcher/

Description:
Text of fieldwork journals "kept by Alice Fletcher during a six-week venture into Plains Indian territory in 1881." Fletcher's trip "was unprecedented. ... no one but Frank Hamilton Cushing had lived with Native Americans for a scientific purpose." Features illustrated diary entries, a photo gallery, Sioux folk tales recorded by Fletcher, and related readings and links. From the National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Publisher:
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution

LII Database Information:
Record 25617 created by Jennifer English on 03/03/2008
Last modification on 03/04/2008
Published: 03/13/2008  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/25617