Author : Garrick Bailey
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2023-05-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780826348517
Traditions of the Osage is a collection of sacred teachings, folk stories, and animal stories in their original language, Osage, between 1910 and 1923.
Author : Louis F. Burns
Publisher : Fire Ant Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2005-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0817351817
Siouan peoples who migrated from the Atlantic coastal region and settled in the central portion of the North American continent long before the arrival of Europeans are now known as Osage. Because the Osage did not possess a written language, their myths and cultural traditions were handed down orally through many generations. With time, only those elements deemed vital were preserved in the stories, and many of these became highly stylized. The resulting verbal recitations of the proper life of an Osage—from genesis myths to body decoration, from star songs to child-naming rituals, from war party strategies to medicinal herbs—constitute this comprehensive volume. Osage myths differ greatly from the myths of Western Civilization, most obviously in the absence of individual names. Instead, “younger brother,” “the messenger,” “Little Old Men,” or a clan name may serve as the allegorical embodiment of the central player. Individual heroic feats are also missing because group life took precedence over individual experience in Osage culture. Supplementing the work of noted ethnographer Francis La Flesche who devoted most of his professional life to recording detailed descriptions of Osage rituals, Louis Burns’s unique position as a modern Osage—aware of the white culture’s expectations but steeped in the traditions himself is able to write from an insider’s perspective.
Author : Louis F. Burns
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 41,88 MB
Release : 2004-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0817350187
Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.
Author : David Grann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 32,47 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0307742482
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”—USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!
Author : Garrick Alan Bailey
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 39,26 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Indian art
ISBN : 9780295983875
This volume draws together more than two centuries' worth of Osage art, tracing the patterns of Osage life and culture as they existed from contact to the present. 140 illustrations, 110 in color.
Author : John Joseph Mathews
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 1961
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806117706
Perhaps once in a generation a great book appears on the life of a people--less than a nation, more than a tribe--that reflects in a clear light the epic strivings of men and women everywhere, since the beginnings of time. The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters is such a book. Drawing from the oral history of his people before the coming of Europeans, the recorded history since, and his own lifetime among them, John Joseph Mathews created a truly epic history. This account of the Osages, a Siouan tribe once centered in the area now occupied by St. Louis, later on small streams in southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas, then in northeastern Oklahoma, is a spiritual one. Their quest in the centuries-long record was for the meaning of Wah'Kon-Tah, the Great Mysteries. In war, in peace, in camps and villages, in their land of the Middle Waters, the Osages met all of the changes and hardships people are likely to meet anywhere. Mathews tells the Osages' story with rare poetical feeling, in rhythms of language and with dramatic insights that surpass even his first book, Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road, which was selected by a major book club when published in 1932. Mathews managed his vast canvas with consummate skill, marking him as one of the major interpreters of American Indian life and history.
Author : Dennis McAuliffe
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781571780836
Murder mystery, family memoir and spiritual journey combined, this story unearths family secrets and ultimately exposes a systematic murder plot.
Author : Robert M. Liebert
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Richly combines many aspects of Osage life: their livelihood, social organization, and spirituality just prior to white contact.
Author : Genevieve Simermeyer
Publisher : Council Oak Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Indian children
ISBN : 9781571782175
Celebrates the Osage Indian tribal culture through the daily life of Christopher Cote.
Author : Francis La Flesche
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 27,21 MB
Release : 1999-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806131320
Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the religion of the Osage Indians, all gathered from the most knowledgeable Osage religious leaders of their day. Yet his writings have been largely overlooked because they were published piecemeal over the course of twenty-five years and never adequately collected or analyzed. In this book, Garrick A. Bailey brings together in a clear, understandable way La Flesche’s data for two important Osage religious ceremonies--the "Songs of Wa-xo’-be," an initiation into a clan priesthood, and the Rite of the Chiefs, an initiation into a tribal priesthood. To put La Flesche’s work into perspective, Bailey offers a short biography of this prolific Native American scholar and an overview of traditional Osage religious beliefs and practices.
