Natalie Curtis

Natalie Curtis ( born April 26, 1875 in New York; † October 23, 1921 in Paris) was an American ethnographer who became famous for her research on the Indians.

Vita and work

Curtis enjoyed a good education as a doctor's daughter and was initially trained as a pianist. At 25, she accompanied her brother on a trip to the southwest of the states that certain her fate when she met Indians.

Until the end of her life from now on Curtis collected poems, songs, fairy tales, myths and stories of various Native American tribes as a valuable testimonies of the native American culture. Her work of the Brothers Grimm is comparable to the fairy tale preserved in Germany from oblivion. Curtis sat down across from Theodore Roosevelt committed to the rights of the Indians a.

Curtis received international recognition, such as she held in October 1921 lecture at the Sorbonne in Paris. Shortly after she was hit by a taxi and died.

Publication in selection

• Words of Hiparopai (1907 )
• The People of the Totem Poles: Their Art and Legends ( 1909)
• Theodore Roosevelt in Hopi country. The Outlook, March 5, 1919
• The Indians ' Book. Authentic Native American Legends, Lore & Music. Recorded and Edited by Natalie Curtis. illustrated with Native American Drawings & turn-of -the- Century Photographs. 576 S. Gramercy Books. Distributed by Outlet Book Company, a Division of Random House. 40 Engelhard Avenue, Avenel, New Jersey 07001

• Altamerikanist
• Native American Culture
• Americans
• Born 1875
• Died in 1921
• Woman