Tibbles, Susette La Flesche, 1854-1903
Susette La Flesche Tibbles was an Omaha author, lecturer, and advocate for Native American rights. She was also known as Bright Eyes, the English translation of her Omaha name, which has been variously transliterated as Inshta Theamba, Inshta Theumba, and Inshata Theumba.
She was born in 1854 on Omaha lands. (The Omaha Reservation is now located mostly in eastern Nebraska on the Missouri River, with some areas in western Iowa, U.S.) Her parents were Joseph La Flesche (Iron Eye), chief of the Omaha, and Mary Gale (One Woman), daughter of an Iowa woman and a white man. She had four siblings, including physician Susan LaFlesche Picotte, and several half siblings, including ethnologist Francis La Flesche. She was educated at a local mission school and at a girls' school in New Jersey. After graduating, she worked as a teacher on the Omaha Reservation.
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