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6 unusual facts about Frank Speck


Beothuk language

In 1910 American anthropologist Frank Speck recorded a seventy-five-year-old native woman named Santu Toney singing a song purported to be in the Beothuk language.

Beothuk people

In 1910 a 75-year old Native woman named Santu Toney, who said she was the daughter of a Mi'kmaq mother and a Beothuk father, recorded a song in the Beothuk language for the American anthropologist Frank Speck.

Frank Speck

Speck also sponsored Native American students at Penn such as Molly Spotted Elk and Gladys Tantaquidgeon.

Speck was elected to numerous professional associations, where he took an active role on committees, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society, Geographical Society of Philadelphia, and Archaeological Society of North Carolina (honorary).

Frank Gouldsmith Speck (November 8, 1881 – February 6, 1950) was an American anthropologist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in the Algonquian and Iroquoian peoples among the Eastern Woodland Native Americans of the United States and First Nations peoples of eastern boreal Canada.

Mohegan people

The Mohegan language was recorded primarily in a Smithsonian Institution report made by the early anthropologist, Frank Speck, who lived with Fielding and recorded much of her testimony.



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