Susette la flesche biography books
Susette la flesche bio.
Susette La Flesche
Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter and artist
Susette La Flesche, later Susette LaFlesche Tibbles and also called Inshata Theumba, meaning "Bright Eyes" (c.
1854–1903), was a well-known Native American writer, lecturer, interpreter, and artist of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska.
Susette la flesche biography books
La Flesche was a progressive who was a spokesperson for Native American rights. She was of Ponca, Iowa, French, and Anglo-American ancestry. In 1983, she was inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame. In 1994, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.[1]
Early life and education
Susette, also called Inshata Theumba (Bright Eyes),[2] was born in Bellevue, Nebraska in about 1854, the eldest daughter of five children born to Joseph LaFlesche and his wife Mary Gale.
Joseph was the son of the French fur trader Joseph La Flesche, a wealthy immigrant from France,[3] and his Ponca wife, Waoowinchtcha, reportedly a relative of th