Archie Phinney
Anthropologist, Deceased Person
1904 – 1949
Who was Archie Phinney?
Archie Phinney was a Nez Perce Indian and an anthropologist.
Born in Culdesac, Idaho, to Mr. & Mrs. Fitch Phinney, Archie Phinney was five-eighths Nez Perce, but was also proud to claim William Craig as his great-grandfather. Craig was a fur trapper and the first permanent white settler in the region in 1840. A 1922 graduate of Culdesac High School, Phinney attended the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1926 and was the first Native American to graduate from the university. He later took graduate courses in anthropology at George Washington University, New York University, and Columbia University.
Phinney wrote the Nez Perce Texts, which are a collection of Nez Perce myths that he recorded from his mother, Mary Lily Phinney. The text were written with alternating lines of English and Nez Perce followed by an English summary. The text was funded by the Committee on Research in Native American Languages, composed of Franz Boas of the anthropology department of Columbia University and Leonard Bloomfield and Edward Sapir of the anthropology department of the University of Chicago. The texts were compiled while Phinney was in Leningrad in 1933–37 where he was a researcher and lectured at the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad.
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- Born
- Sep 4, 1904
Culdesac - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- University of Kansas
- Died
- Oct 29, 1949
Lewiston
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on July 23, 2013
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