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Francis La Flesche

Francis La Flesche was born and raised on the Omaha Reservation, the son of Omaha chief Iron Eye. He met the anthropologist Alice Fletcher, one of the major influences in his life, in Washington, DC while he was accompanying the Ponca chief Standing Bear on a political tour in 1879-1880 following Standing Bear's trial in which it was determined that an Indian is a person. In 1882, when Fletcher visited the Omaha Reservation, she used La Flesche as her interpreter and informant. He went on to become her field assistant and, finally, collaborator. In 1910, he joined the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, and retired in 1929. His major area of interest was recording Omaha and Osage cultures, languages, and music through both written documentation and cylinder recordings.

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Native American writer and anthropologist (1857-1932)

Born 1857
Died 1932

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  • Cover of: The Omaha Tribe, Vol. 2
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    Cover of edition omahatribe0000flet Cover of edition omahatribe0001flet_c1h0 First published in 1911 — 14 editions
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    First published in 1905 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Traditions of the Osage: stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche
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  • Cover of: Engineering properties of shotcrete.

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  • Cover of: The Osage tribe
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  • Cover of: A Study of Omaha Indian Music: By Alice C. Fletcher ... Aided by Francis La ...
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Native American writer and anthropologist (1857-1932)

Born 1857
Died 1932

Subjects

Indians of North America, Omaha Indians, Folklore, Osage Indians, Concrete, Dictionaries, Education, English, English language, Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes, Ethnography, Fiction, Funeral customs and rites, Gunite, History, History - U.S., History of specific racial & ethnic groups, History: American, Indian children, Indians, Indians of north america, folklore, Indians of north america, middle west, Indians of north america, rites and ceremonies, Indians of north america, west (u.s.), Indigenous peoples

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Great Plains, North America, Oklahoma, Omaha Indian Reservation (Neb.)

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  • La Flesche, Francis

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January 13, 2025 Edited by raybb Edited without comment.
April 22, 2024 Edited by MARC Bot move website to links
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
July 31, 2018 Edited by DriniBot removing erroneous .comment
October 27, 2008 Created by ImportBot Imported from Internet Archive item record