La Flesche
Americannoun
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Earlier that year, Fletcher had approached Susette La Flesche, who arranged for Fletcher to camp with the Omaha in Nebraska for three weeks before traveling northward to the Sioux.
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The new position was for Fletcher alone—La Flesche continued as her unpaid research assistant.
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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.
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Fletcher’s continued anthropological work, much of it done with La Flesche, launched her into new professional heights.
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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.”
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