Rosalie, NE

Rosalie is a village in Thurston County, Nebraska, United States, within the boundaries of the Omaha Indian Reservation. The 2020 census counted 159 residents. Rosalie was named for Rosalie La Flesche Farley, a daughter of Joseph La Flesche, the last principal chief of the Omaha tribe selected by traditional means in the nineteenth century, and the only chief of part-European ancestry. The Bancroft and Rosalie schools merged into Bancroft-Rosalie Public Schools in 1982. The combined district is based in Bancroft. A newcomer can read Rosalie through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Rosalie comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines.