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 Gahehdagowa ('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.
