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The Middle Five

by Francis La Flesche

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First published
1900
Pages
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Francis La Flesche drew on his own boyhood for this 1900 memoir of life at a Presbyterian mission school among the Omaha people. He and a small band of friends, the group of the title, learn to navigate the strange rules of a white-run classroom while holding onto the games, loyalties, and tribal traditions of home. La Flesche writes without bitterness or easy sentiment, recording the humor and grief of childhood: the pranks, the friendships, the harsh discipline, and the loss of a beloved companion. As the first Native American to work as a professional ethnologist, he offers an insider's view of a world usually described from outside.

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Francis La Flesche

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932) was an Omaha ethnologist and writer, widely regarded as the first professional Native American anthropologist. Working at the Smithsonian's Bureau of American Ethnology, he documented Omaha and Osage culture, music, and language, often in collaboration with Alice Fletcher.

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First published
1900
Reading time
About 3 hours
Pages
113
Language
English
Genre
Memoir
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