The Osages : children of the Middle Waters

Mathews, John Joseph 1895-1979 (author.).

Summary: From dust jacket: "Once in a generation, perhaps, a great book appears on the life of a people, less than a nation, more than a tribe, reflecting in a clear light the epic strivings of men everywhere since the beginnings of time...From the oral history of his people extending to the period before the coming of Europeans, the recored history since, and his own lifetime among them, John Joseph Mathews has created a truly epic history."

Record details

ISBN: 9780806117706
ISBN: 0806117702
Physical Description: xx, 826 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Edition: [First edition].
Publisher: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]
Copyright: ©1961

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-799) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Before the Europeans -- People from the stars -- The little old men -- The fireplaces -- "Move to a new country" -- The sacred Hawk -- The commandments -- The tribal hunt -- Kinsmen and enemies -- The heavy eyebrows -- First meetings with Europeans -- Flood on the smoky waters -- Coureurs de Bois and Voyageurs -- I-Spa-Tho and Long Knives -- Horses -- Guns -- To control a continent -- The Little Ones had a traditional flood -- The Down-Below People meet the Cliff Dwellers -- Slaves and spirits -- Coureurs de Bois, vagabonds, and Sac and Foxes -- The company of the Indies -- Fort d'Orleans -- "Louisiana has never been in open war with Osages" -- Wah'Kon and George Washington -- The I-Spa-Tho take over -- His Catholic Majesty declares war on the Little Ones -- Fort Carondelet -- The Americans -- European economics -- Before the invasion -- Marriage of Bloody Hands and The Light -- Little Stars from the Sky Lodge -- Mauve shadows -- The new Long Knives explorers -- The Little Ones touch the feather -- Fort Osage and the War of 1812 -- Fort Smith -- Rhythms of the Moon Woman -- The grizzly bear lunge -- Hunter stalks the Little Ones -- The Little Ones protect their "brothers" -- Mo'n Sho'n becomes a shriveled old woman -- The god of the heavy eyebrows -- Little Chief and Hawk Woman go to France -- The "Buffalo" Indians and the immigrants -- The "Little People" attack the Little Ones -- The Little Ones ordered off their old domain -- On the prairie and the plains -- On the prairie -- On the plains -- Nika-Sabe, the black man -- Between the heavy eyebrows and the Arapahoes -- The friends -- Blackjacks and prairie -- Peyote and oil -- Disintegration and confusion -- Moonhead -- The mourning Dance -- The crow dancers -- The great frenzy -- The old eagle goes to Spiritland.
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