Marriage and Family
La Flesche married Alice Mitchell in June 1877, but she died the next year. In 1879 he married a young Omaha woman Rosa Bourassa, about the time of his tour in 1879-1880 with his sister and Standing Bear, but they separated shortly before he began working in Washington in 1881 and divorced in 1884.
For most of his years in Washington, La Flesche shared a house on Capitol Hill with Alice Fletcher, with whom he worked closely, and Jane Gay. Fletcher and La Flesche kept the nature of their relationship private. She willed money to him at her death.
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