Francis La Flesche
Francis La Flesche (* 1857 ; † 1932 ) was an Omaha and American ethnologist .
La Flesche was the adoptive son of the ethnologist Alice Fletcher , with whom he worked on recording and saving the ancient Omaha culture.
His father was the Omaha chief Iron Eye, his sisters Susette "Bright Eyes" La Flesche Tibbles and Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte.
Francis La Flesche accompanied Bright Eyes and the Ponca Chief Standing Bear on their lecture tour of the east coast of the United States and Europe, which followed a landmark judgment given by US District Court Judge Elmer Dundy in the Standing Bear case in 1879. It decided that by law an Indian was just as much a person with full rights as any other citizen.
La Flesche also examined the music and rituals of the Osagen , close relatives of the Omaha , in an important oral history and rescue ethnology . He undertook this work as an employee of the Bureau of American Ethnology and the Smithsonian Institution from 1910 to 1929. He documented the text and music of the rituals in writing and with original recordings.
Osage have the significance of this testimony with that of Qumran - scrolls compared.
Web links
- Francis La Flesche
- Archives of the La Flesche family at the Nebraska State Historical Society
- Register to the Papers of Alice Cunningham Fletcher and Francis La Flesche , National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution
Remarks
- Time Life Books (ed.): The Wild West, Time Life Books, 1993. p. 318.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | La Flesche, Francis |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | La Fleche, Francis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American ethnologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1857 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1932 |