Francis La Flesche

(1857-1932) born near Macy, Thurston County, lived in Bellevue. Anthropologist, considered one of the first Native Americans to achieve a notable scholarly career, worked in the Office of Indian Affairs from 1881 to 1910, then in the Bureau of American Ethnology until 1929, preserved history of Osage and Omaha Indians, author or co-author of five books and 17 articles, awarded honorary doctorate from University of Nebraska in 1926. Consult UNL Nebraska Alumnus, June 1926, p. 272 and New York Times obituary, September 10 1932, p. 15 and Jean Sanders, Notable Nebraskans (Media Productions, 1996) 35-40 and American National Biography, Vol 13 (1999) 42.

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