Charles f. lummis biography

American journalist

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.^[1][2][3] He worked as a city editor for the Los Angeles Times.

After being paralyzed, he lived in a Pueblo Indian village and began promoting Native American rights.

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Later in his life he was a city librarian at the Los Angeles Public Library.

Early life and career

Lummis was born in 1859, in Lynn, Massachusetts. He lost his mother at age two and was homeschooled by his father, who was a schoolmaster and a Methodist mini