# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-amos-dorsey
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:59:49.747Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-amos-dorsey"
name: "George Amos Dorsey"
slug: "george-amos-dorsey"
description: "George Amos Dorsey was an American ethnographer of indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a special focus on the Caddoan and Siouan 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 University of Chicago from 1907 to 1915."
tagline: "Ethnographer of North American Indians, especially the Mandan tribe"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dr._George_Dorsey_seated_on_the_arm_of_an_upholstered_armchair%2C_ca._1927-1928._(19962372568).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1868-02-06"
deathDate: "1931-03-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.23
  momentum:             1.538461538461538
  historical:           5.271778666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "George A. Dorsey"
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    title: "جارج آموس ڈورسی"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Amos_Dorsey"
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    title: "George Amos Dorsey"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump