Francis La Flesche - Legacy and Honors

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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