Legacy and Honors
- 1922, La Flesche was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences
- 1922-23, he was elected as president of the Anthropological Society of Washington
- 1926, awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters by the University of Nebraska
- Because of the close working relationship between Fletcher and La Flesche, the Smithsonian Institution has collected their papers in a joint archive.
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