Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Omaha Indians
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Indians of North America--Great Plains--Social conditions
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Acculturation--Great Plains
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Indian women--Great Plains
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Indians of North America--Secret societies
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Omaha
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Omaha
Abstract:
The Omaha collection covers a variety of cultural, historical and environmental information on different sections of Omaha society from pre-contact times to early 2000s. The work of Alice Fletcher, an anthropologist who lived with the Omaha for thirty years in 1875-1905, and Francis La Flesche, a native Omaha, is the basic and most comprehensive document in the collection. The collection also includes two works by a missionary/anthropologist, James Dorsey, who worked among the Omaha in 1878-1980. Together, these works provide the earliest systematic attempts at understanding and reconstructing pre-reservation Omaha society and culture. The remaining documents describe and examine more specific aspects of Omaha culture including acculturation with particular reference to women, religious life and organization of secret societies, and recent dynamics of ethnicity and identity especially among current generation Omaha peoples in Nebraska
Note:
Culture summary: Omaha - Mark Awakuni-Swetland - 2011 -- - The Omaha tribe - by Alice C. Fletcher and Francis La Flesche, a member of the Omaha tribe - 1911 -- - Omaha sociology - Rev. J. Owen Dorsey - 1884 -- - The changing culture of an Indian tribe - Margaret Mead ; foreword by Clark Wissler - 1932 -- - Omaha dwelling, furniture, and implements - James Owen Dorsey - 1896 -- - Omaha secret societies - by R. F. Fortune - 1932 -- - Omaha - Margot P. Liberty, W. Raymond Wood, and Lee Irwin - 2001 -- - All old spirits have come back to greet him: realizing the Sacred Pole of the Omaha tribe - Robin Ridington - 1997
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