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The La Flesche family believe they "own" the history of the Omaha through their hijacking of some of the forms of anthropology, writing, etc.

The Barada, Barnaby, and von Felden families have been all but erased from history through a systematic removal by the La Flesche family, with the goal of making La Flesche the dominate educated family of the Omaha. This is not so. As Laughing Buffalo was known as "The Teacher of the Plains Indians" and was educated on the East Coast and married Antoine Barada and gave birth to half breed children.

Her grandchild, Josephine Barnaby von Felden (1865-1915), went to Hampton University alongside La Flesche. The two were friends. Josephine returned home early after a leg/knee injury wouldn't allow her to continue studying in New Haven. She began practicing medicine BEFORE La Flesche Picotte returned from back east even though she hadn't graduated from the Hampton Indian program. She became La Flesche Picotte's assistant after her return. The two had a falling out and Josephine moved to the Dakota Territory to teach music. That is where she single candidly stopped a pandemic from breaking out.

Now, if you can't respect that history, that's on you and you are just as guilty of covering up the great works of Josephine as the La Flesche's and the Omaha themselves.

This is her biography, this is my great grandmother. Contact me seanvonfelden@yahoo.com She is a woman she was not insignificant, but to some, like you, maybe some are.

Josephine Barnaby von Felden (1865-1915), first Native to learn then practice Western medicine on Tribal land, author (The Present Condition of My People, 188?, American Missionary Assoc., Amherst College), teacher, interpreter