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Charles Fletcher Lummis

1859 - 1928
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About Charles Fletcher Lummis

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Charles Fletcher Lummis (March 1, 1859 – November 25, 1928) was an American journalist, civil rights activist, preservationist, poet and librarian who promoted Native American rights and historic preservation. He founded the Southwest Museum of the American Indian. Lummis began his career as a printer and wrote poems. He traveled in the American Southwest, and settled in Los Angeles, California, where he became known as a historian, photographer, ethnographer and archaeologist.