La Flesche

Fletcher’s continued anthropological work, much of it done with La Flesche, launched her into new professional heights.

The new position was for Fletcher alone—La Flesche continued as her unpaid research assistant.

Omaha society was nonmonogamous; men were permitted to take more than one wife, though Fletcher and La Flesche noted that polygamy wasn’t a common practice.

He was touring the East Coast with the Omaha translator Susette “Bright Eyes” La Flesche and her brother Francis, aiming to gain support for the Poncas’ plight.

Fletcher was struck by Susette La Flesche’s eloquence, grasping that “the door of language could be unlocked and intelligent relations made possible between the two races.”