Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Series Statement:
eHRAF World Cultures
Keywords:
Osage Indians
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Osage Indians--Folklore
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Osage Indians--Rites and ceremonies
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Osage Indians--Religion
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Osage mythology
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Osage Indians--Social life and customs
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Osage Indians--History
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Osage
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Osage
Abstract:
The Osage collection covers a variety of cultural, historical and environmental information on different sections of Osage society from pre-contact times to late 1990s. The works of James Owen Dorsey and George A. Dorsey represent the earliest systematic attempts at understanding and reconstructing pre-reservation Osage society and culture. However, the basic and most comprehensive sources in the collection are four works by Francis La Flesche, a native Omaha who studied the Osage in 1910-1920. Topics covered in these works include marriage customs, ceremonies and rituals and child-naming rites. The collection also includes other works by the anthropologist Garrick A. Bailey who conducted ethnographic field work among the Osage in Oklahoma in the mid-1960s and 1970s. Two of these works are broad descriptions of Osage culture and history. The remaining two works, Bailey explores similarities and differences between the traditional Osage world described by La Flesche and the Osage world of later times with particular reference to religion and rituals and social organization. Also included in the collection is an article exploring ideas of justice and punishment held by various Indians and Europeans, ending with the trial of several Osage men accused by the United States of the kind of killing that the Osage had done for a century in protection of their trade and land rights
Note:
Culture summary: Osage - Garrick Bailey - 2011 -- - An account of the war customs of the Osages - given by Red Corn (Hapa 0ü1se), of the Tsi0u peace-making gens to the Rev. J. Owen Dorsey - 1884 -- - Traditions of the Osage - by George A. Dorsey - 1904 -- - Osage marriage customs - by Francis La Flesche - 1912 -- - Ceremonies and rituals of the Osage - Francis La Flesche - 1914 -- - Right and left in Osage ceremonies - Francis La Flesche - 1916 -- - The Osage tribe: two versions of the child-naming rite - by Francis La Flesche - 1928 -- - The Osage and the invisible world: from the works of Francis La Flesche - introduced and edited by Garrick A. Bailey - 1995 -- - Osage - Garrick A. Bailey - 2001 -- - Changes in Osage social organization, 1673-1906 - by Garrick Alan Bailey - 1973 -- - The Osage and the valley of the middle Arkansas - Garrick Bailey - 1998 -- - Cross-cultural crime and Osage justice in the western Mississippi valley, 1700-1826 - Kathleen DuVal - 2007
