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Dorsey had achieved some early media notoriety in 1897 and 1898 when he was called to aid the investigation of the murder of Louisa
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In addition to his formal studies of early societies for anthropology, Dorsey became involved in studying the waves of emigration from "Italy, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Serbia and
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Dorsey married Ida
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tribes of the Great Plains. He is credited with helping develop the anthropology of the Plains Indian tribes while serving as curator at the Field Museum in
Chicago from 1898 until 1915. During this period, he also was Professor of Anthropology at the
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took them to task after learning that they had raided graves and failed to restore them to their former state. Keen found hair and coffins strewn about from where the men had dug to steal skulls and bones. Keen published a letter in the
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for the sensational murder of his wife in 1897. The murder case received national coverage from newspapers. Luetgert was convicted of the murder in his second trial.
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delegate to international congresses of anthropology, and was a member of the Jury of Awards in this field for the St. Louis
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artefacts that might be of ethnographic interest. Their methods varied, but they frequently held little regard for the sensibilities of the
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