Frank Speck
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Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950) was an American anthropologist specializing in First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada, especially Algonkian and Iroquoian peoples.
Born in Brooklyn, he was a student of Franz Boas when he earned an M.A. at Columbia University. Later he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
He was given the Iroquois name Gaheʔdago:wa ('Great Porcupine') upon his adoption into the Turtle clan of the Seneca people.
In 1907 he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania, first on a fellowship that passed to his colleague Edward Sapir the following year. Speck's students at Penn included the anthropologists A. Irving Hallowell, Anthony F. C. Wallace, and James W. VanStone.
[edit] Bibliography
- Darnell, Regna (2006) "Keeping the Faith: A Legacy of Native American Ethnography, Ethnohistory, and Psychology." In: New Perspectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations, ed. by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, pp. 3-16. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
- Fenton, William N. (2001) "He-Lost-a-Bet (Howanʔneyao) of the Seneca Hawk Clan." In: Strangers to Relatives: The Adoption and Naming of Anthropologists in Native North America, ed. by Sergei Kan, pp. 81-98. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
