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The Osages Children Of The Middle Waters
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Author : John Joseph Mathews
language : en
Publisher: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1961
The Osages Children Of The Middle Waters written by John Joseph Mathews and has been published by Norman : University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with History categories.
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.
The Osages Middle Waters
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Author : JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
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The Osages
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Author : John Charles Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
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The Osages
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Author : John Joseph Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1961
The Osages written by John Joseph Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1961 with Indians of North America categories.
Masters Of The Middle Waters
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Author : Jacob F. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2019-03-11
Masters Of The Middle Waters written by Jacob F. Lee and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-11 with History categories.
A riveting account of the conquest of the vast American heartland that offers a vital reconsideration of the relationship between Native Americans and European colonists, and the pivotal role of the mighty Mississippi. America’s waterways were once the superhighways of travel and communication. Cutting a central line across the landscape, with tributaries connecting the South to the Great Plains and the Great Lakes, the Mississippi River meant wealth, knowledge, and power for those who could master it. In this ambitious and elegantly written account of the conquest of the West, Jacob Lee offers a new understanding of early America based on the long history of warfare and resistance in the Mississippi River valley. Lee traces the Native kinship ties that determined which nations rose and fell in the period before the Illinois became dominant. With a complex network of allies stretching from Lake Superior to Arkansas, the Illinois were at the height of their power in 1673 when the first French explorers—fur trader Louis Jolliet and Jesuit priest Jacques Marquette—made their way down the Mississippi. Over the next century, a succession of European empires claimed parts of the midcontinent, but they all faced the challenge of navigating Native alliances and social structures that had existed for centuries. When American settlers claimed the region in the early nineteenth century, they overturned 150 years of interaction between Indians and Europeans. Masters of the Middle Waters shows that the Mississippi and its tributaries were never simply a backdrop to unfolding events. We cannot understand the trajectory of early America without taking into account the vast heartland and its waterways, which advanced and thwarted the aspirations of Native nations, European imperialists, and American settlers alike.
Wah Kon Tah
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Author : John Joseph Mathews
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1981
Wah Kon Tah written by John Joseph Mathews and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Social Science categories.
In Wah’Kon-Tah, John Joseph Mathews relied heavily on the papers of Osage agent Major Labian J. Miles to recreate the world of the Osage during the last quarter of the Nineteenth century and first quarter of the twentieth century. Using his own experiences, Mathews stressed the spirituality, dignity, and humor of the Osages as they acculturated to the non-Indian world and adapted some of its aspects for their own use.
A History Of The Osage People
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Author : Louis F. Burns
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2004-01-28
A History Of The Osage People written by Louis F. Burns and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-28 with History categories.
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.
Osage Indian Customs And Myths
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Author : Louis F. Burns
language : en
Publisher: Fire Ant Books
Release Date : 2005-01-02
Osage Indian Customs And Myths written by Louis F. Burns and has been published by Fire Ant Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-02 with Social Science categories.
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.
Traditions Of The Osage
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Author : Garrick Bailey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-05-15
Traditions Of The Osage written by Garrick Bailey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-15 with categories.
Traditions of the Osage is a collection of sacred teachings, folk stories, and animal stories in their original language, Osage, between 1910 and 1923.
Jesus Among The Middle Waters
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Author : R. Michael Barnett (M.A.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Jesus Among The Middle Waters written by R. Michael Barnett (M.A.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Missionaries categories.
Author's abstract: "Jesus Among the Middle Waters" is a revisionist history, based on primary source research, which reexamines the American Christian missionaries who lived among the Osage Nation between 1820 and 1920. The myth of "spiritual conquest" is dispelled, proving that the Osage themselves remained in control of the decision to abandon traditional religious practices in favor of Christianity. The thesis also proves that the Christian missionaries brought a theology rife with sectarian disunity, which fostered religious factionalism within an Indian community that had previously enjoyed a unified religious system. The narrative examines missionary involvement with the Osage in four phases: Presbyterian (1820-1835), Catholic (1845-1890), Quaker (1869-1879), and the introduction and acceptance of Peyotism (1890s-1920). The work concludes with Peyotism, for it is the development of syncretism that ultimately institutionalized Christianity in the Osage Nation.