Correspondence, 1893-1908 (inclusive).

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Correspondence, 1893-1908 (inclusive).

Typed copies of letters, etc., most from Alice C. Fletcher, and one each from E. Jane Gay and Kate C. McBeth, concerning work among Nez Percés, etc. Three items re: death of Sue McBeth were published in Presbyterian Banner, June 1893.

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Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923

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Alice Cunningham Fletcher was an American ethnologist, anthropologist, and social scientist who studied and documented Native American culture. She credited Frederic Ward Putnam for stimulating her interest in Native American culture. From 1881, Fletcher was involved with the Carlisle Indian School in Pennsylvania, an Indian boarding school with a primary objective of assimilating Native American children and youth into Euro-American culture. In 1881, Fletcher traveled to live with and ...

McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915

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McBeth, Sue L., -1893

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Lawyer, Mylie.

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Susan Law McBeth and Kate C. McBeth were Presbyterian missionaries to the Chectaws and Nez Percés; while with the Nez Percés they met E. Jane Jay and Alice C. Fletcher, who was a special agent for the U.S. Department of the Interior to apportion tribal lands. From the description of Correspondence, 1893-1908 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007300 ...

Gay, E. Jane, 1830-1919

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