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Bright Eyes was born in 1854 on the Nebraska reservation, and bore the name of Susette La Flesche. Her father, Joseph La Flesche (Iron Eye, or Inshtamaza, c. 1818-88), head chief of the tribe, was the son of a French trader, Joseph La Flesche, who had married an Omaha woman about 1817.
Iron Eye, who had some schooling in St. Louis, was a steadfast counselor of "the white man's way" among his people, and he warmly seconded his daughter's efforts toward an education. Susette attended the Presbyterian mission school on the reservation and through the interest of one of her instructors was sent to a private school in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where she qualified as a teacher.
On her return from New Jersey Susette La Flesche taught in a government day school on the reservation, where she is said to have exercised a stimulating influence on her pupils. In 1879, through a dramatic episode in Indian history, she came into prominence. The Poncas, a kindred tribe to the Omahas, living on a reservation in South Dakota claimed by the Sioux, had been forcibly removed by the government in 1877 and taken to the Indian Territory. In their new home they suffered greatly from privation and illness, many of them dying.
Susette and her father visited them in the following year, giving them such aid as they could afford, and on returning made public an account of their sufferings which awakened much sympathy. Early in 1879 the chief of the Poncas, Machunazha, or Standing Bear, and thirty-four followers, including women and children, left the Territory and started north. After a six-hundred-mile journey, in which they underwent great suffering, they arrived among the Omahas late in March.
They were at once arrested by the military, taken to Fort Omaha and ordered to be be sent back. Two men on the editorial staff of the Omaha Herald--Thomas H. Tibbles, later to become prominent as a Populist editor and a candidate for vice-president (1904), and W. L. Carpenter--immediately interested themselves in the case and enlisted the services of two leading attorneys of the state, who brought a habeas corpus proceeding before Judge Elmer S. Dundy, in the federal district court. The case was tried April 30 and resulted in a decision giving the Poncas their freedom.
Encouraged by the victory and at the same time apprehensive of reprisals on the part of the so-called "Indian ring, " friends of the Indians thereupon proposed a movement to awaken the public interest. Under the management of Mr. Tibbles, Susette (who now, apparently at the suggestion of others, adopted the distinctively Indian name Inshtatheamba, or Bright Eyes), her brother Francis (later to win distinction as an ethnologist), and Standing Bear made a speaking tour of the East. They attracted great attention and doubtless contributed in no small measure to the abandonment of the policy of arbitrary removals of Indian tribes.
She edited, with an introduction, an anonymous narrative, Ploughed Under, The Story of an Indian Chief, which was published in 1881 and was widely reviewed. As a writer she was clear and cogent, and as a speaker she was forceful and eloquent, with a manner and bearing of native grace and dignity. Her later years were lived mainly at Lincoln.
She died on the reservation, near Bancroft.
Mrs. Tibbles, who is known through her articles in magazines as "Bright Eyes, " was talented as an artist as well as a writer. She was said to be the only known Indian illustrator, and received her art education in the State university art school. She married Mr. Tibbles who was at the time a government official. A number of years ago Mr. and Mrs. Tibbles made an extended lecture tour over the United States and Great Britain arousing public sentiment upon the Indian question which resulted in many laws being passed helpful to that race.
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As a writer Susette La Flesche was clear and cogent, and as a speaker she was forceful and eloquent, with a manner and bearing of native grace and dignity.
In 1881 Susette La Flesche was married to Mr. Tibbles. Later she traveled with him to Scotland, where she made several addresses. She cooperated with her husband in his editorial and political work and was especially active as a writer.
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