Francis La Flesche Digital Resources Development Initiative

FAIN: AD-277818-21

Nebraska Indian Community College (Macy, NE 68039-3051)
Maunka Morgan (Project Director: July 2020 to August 2022)
Ezechiel Brummels (Project Director: August 2022 to present)
Michael T. Berger (Co Project Director: December 2020 to present)

The development of curriculum and educational digital resources on Omaha tribal culture, drawing on artifacts and information collected by 19th-century Native American anthropologist Francis La Flesche.

Integration of new digital resources from a collection created by famous anthropologist Francis La Flesche into Native Studies courses, develop digital exhibit with student interns for community members and development of specialized materials for senior citizen participants.

Associated Products

Francis La Flesche and the Osage: Interview with Braxton Redeagle (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Francis La Flesche and the Osage: Interview with Braxton Redeagle
Writer: Michael T. Berger
Director: Michael T. Berger
Producer: Michael T. Berger
Abstract: This video examines Francis La Flesche’s documentation work with the Osage Nation and how his works are relevant today for historical and linguistic researchers and teachers. Osage Nation language teacher Braxton Redeagle discusses the importance of Francis La Flesche’s work with the Osage Nation and the importance of his linguistic work to Osage language teaching and revitalization.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZi1gYDj9rc&t=294s
Primary URL Description: Nebraska Indian Community College YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/@nebraskaindiancommunitycol3163
Secondary URL: http://https://youtu.be/VZi1gYDj9rc
Secondary URL Description: www.YouTube.com
Access Model: open access
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Format: Other

Francis La Flesche and the Osage: Interview with Christopher Cote (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Francis La Flesche and the Osage: Interview with Christopher Cote
Writer: Micheal T. Berger
Director: Michael T. Berger
Producer: Michael T. Berger
Abstract: This video examines Francis La Flesche’s documentation work with the Osage Nation and how his works are relevant today for historical and linguistic researchers and teachers. Osage Nation language teacher Christopher Cote discusses the importance of Francis La Flesche’s work with the Osage Nation and the importance of his linguistic work to Osage language teaching and revitalization.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viwqybRYGZQ
Primary URL Description: Nebraska Indian Community College YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/@nebraskaindiancommunitycol3163
Secondary URL: https://youtu.be/viwqybRYGZQ
Secondary URL Description: https://youtube.com
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Format: Other

Francis La Flesche and the Osage: Interview with Herman Lookout (Film/TV/Video Broadcast or Recording)
Title: Francis La Flesche and the Osage: Interview with Herman Lookout
Writer: Michael T. Berger
Director: Michael T. Berger
Producer: Michael T. Berger
Abstract: This video examines Francis La Flesche’s documentation work with the Osage Nation and how his works are relevant today for historical and linguistic researchers and teachers. Osage Nation linguist Herman "mogri" Lookout discusses the importance of Francis La Flesche’s work with the Osage Nation.
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://youtu.be/tTkWT8A8Vr8
Primary URL Description: Nebraska Indian Community College YouTube site https://www.youtube.com/@nebraskaindiancommunitycol3163
Secondary URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTkWT8A8Vr8
Access Model: open access
Format: Video
Format: Digital File
Format: Web
Format: Other

The Omaha, Francis La Flesche, and His Collection (Book)
Title: The Omaha, Francis La Flesche, and His Collection
Author: Ilja Labischinski
Author: Wynema Morris
Author: Elisabeth Seyerl-Lankamp
Author: Hartmut Dorgerloh
Author: Lars-Christian Koch
Author: Antje Brormann
Author: Michael T Berger
Author: Barbara Lenz
Author: Barbara Jo McKillip- Erixson
Author: Pierre Merrick
Author: Vanessa Dawn Hamilton
Author: Tracy Lynn Mitchell
Author: Isha Marie Morris
Editor: Barbara Martinkat Photo Editor
Editor: Susanne Muller-Wolff
Abstract: The book centers around an never before published ethnological work of Francis La Flesche of the Omaha Tribe, considered today the first indigenous North American ethnologist. Collection Catalog featured was created as part of a commissioned collection La Flesche produced between 1894 and 1898 on behalf of the Royal Museum of Ethnologies know known as the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. The book is published with in connection with the exhibition Against the Current: The Omaha, Francis La Flesche, and his Collection, at the Humboldt Forum Berlin 2022- 2025. Accompanying the unpublished original catalog are essays Francis La Flesche Between Two Worlds by Ilja Labischniski and Elisabeth Sereyl-Langkamp, and Francis La Flesche and The Omaha During a Time of Transition by Wynema Morris, Omaha tribal member and Nebraska Indian Community College faculty member.
Year: 2023
Access Model: open access
Publisher: Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Type: Multi-author monograph
Type: Scholarly Edition
Type: Other
ISBN: 978342299076-0
Copy sent to NEH?: Yes

The La Flesche Collection (Public Lecture or Presentation)
Title: The La Flesche Collection
Abstract: Public program introducing the newly rediscovered work of Francis La Flesche and discussion with project participants utilizing digital images collected through this NEH project documenting the reconnection with the collection and the development of the exhibit Against the Current: The Omaha, Francis La Flesche, And His Collection Exhibition at the Humboldt Forum Berlin 2022- 2025.
Author: Wynema Morris
Author: Lani Moran-Samqua
Author: Ezechiel Brummels
Author: Michael T Berger
Author: Vanessa Hamilton
Date: 3/10/2024
Location: Betty Strong Encounter Center
Primary URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_OpvWSl38U
Primary URL Description: Informative public discussion program at the Betty Strong Encounter Center in the Sioux City, Iowa Lewis and Clark Center. introducing the forgotten work of La Flesche featuring digital photo material created as part of this NEH project and experiences of the

"We Don't Want Another White Guy to Tell our Story!" Reflections on a Collaborative Exhibition Project about the 'Francis La Flesche Collection' at the Humboldt Forum (Article)
Title: "We Don't Want Another White Guy to Tell our Story!" Reflections on a Collaborative Exhibition Project about the 'Francis La Flesche Collection' at the Humboldt Forum
Author: Elisabeth Seyerl-Lankamp
Author: Ilja Labischinski
Author: Barbara McKillip-Erixson
Author: Wynema Morris
Abstract: Abstract: Collaboration with creator communities has become a new paradigm for ethnological museums. In this article, we discuss the possibilities and limits of cooperation with stakeholders from creator communities based on our experience of the last five years, during which we created an exhibition together with the Nebraska Indian Community College (NICC) for the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. In 1894, the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde commissioned Francis La Flesche, who is today considered the first Indigenous ethnologist, to assemble a collection of his own culture, the Umoⁿhoⁿ. ‘We don’t want another white guy to tell our story!’, Wynema Morris, Professor at the NICC, made clear when we told her about our plans to do an exhibition together with the college. The historical collection became the starting point for a collaborative project that was developed from 2017 to 2022. The experiences of racism, violence and loss of land still influence the living conditions of the Umoⁿhoⁿ community today. In this context, the Berlin collection is of particular importance, because it bears witness to the resistance against colonization. It offers the Umoⁿhoⁿ the opportunity to reconnect with their ancestors and present their own history to a German public. The project also made clear how deeply inscribed colonial contexts are in the collections of ethnological museums. [collaboration, Omaha, Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, Humboldt Forum, provenance research] Vol 148 No 2 (2023): Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Year: 2023
Primary URL: https://zfejsca.org/ojs/index.php/jsca/article/view/1313/1250
Primary URL Description: The Zeitschrift für Ethnologie (ZfE) was first published in 1869 In Berlin. It is published jointly by two academic societies: the German Association for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GAA/DGSKA) and the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory (BGAEU). For the GAA/DGSKA, Prof. Dr. Gabriele Alex (Tübingen) acts as editor, for the BGAEU, Prof. Dr. Alexis von Poser (Berlin) acts as editor. They are supported by an editorial team of eight experienced academics. Since 2020 the Zeitschrift for Ethnologie also has an English name: Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology (JSCA). Contact: zfe@posteo.de
Access Model: open access
Format: Journal
Format: Other
Periodical Title: Vol. 148 No. 2 (2023): Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Publisher: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology

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