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See also:FLETCHER, ALICE See also:CUNNINGHAM (1845– ) , See also:American ethnologist, was See also:born in See also:Boston, See also:Massachusetts, in 1845. She studied the remains of See also:Indian See also:civilization in the See also:Ohio and See also:Mississippi valleys, became a member of the Archaeological See also:Institute of See also:America in 1879, and worked and lived with the See also:Omahas as a representative of the See also:Peabody Museum of American See also:Archaeology and See also:Ethnology, Harvard University, In 1883 she was appointed See also:special See also:agent to allot lands to the See also:Omaha tribes, in 1884 prepared and sent to the New See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans Exposition an exhibit showing the progress of civilization among the See also:Indians of See also:North America in the See also:quarter-See also:century previous, in 1886 visited the natives of See also:Alaska and the Aleutian Islands on a See also:mission from the See also:commissioner of See also:education, and in 1887 was See also:United States special agent in the See also:distribution of lands among the Winnebagoes and Nez Perces. She was made assistant in ethnology at the Peabody Museum in 1882, and received the Thaw fellowship in 1891; was See also:president of the Anthropological Society of See also:Washington and of the American Folk-See also:Lore Society, and See also:vice-president of the American Association for the See also:Advancement of See also:Science;'and, working through the Woman's See also:National Indian Association, introduced a See also:system of making small loans to Indians, wherewith they might buy See also:land and houses. In 1888 she published Indian Education and Civilization, a special See also:report of the See also:Bureau of Education. In 1898 at the See also:Congress of Musicians held at Omaha during the Trans-Mississippi Ex-position she read " several essays upon the songs of the North American Indians . . in See also:illustration of which a number of Omaha Indians .
End of Article: FLETCHER, ALICE CUNNINGHAM (1845– )
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