A history of the Osage people [[electronic resource] /] / Louis F. Burns
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| Autore: |
Burns Louis F
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| Titolo: |
A history of the Osage people [[electronic resource] /] / Louis F. Burns
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| Pubblicazione: | Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2004 |
| Edizione: | [New ed.]. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (594 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 978.004/9752 |
| Soggetto topico: | Osage Indians - History |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-539) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Illustrations; Preface to the New Edition; Preface to the First Edition; PART ONE: THE ASCENT OF THE OSAGE PEOPLE, 1200-1803; 1. Osage Origins; 2. The Osage Empire; 3. Osage Relationships with Euro-Americans, 1675-1803; PART TWO: ERODING THE OSAGE CIVILIZATION, 1803-1850; 4. Coming of the Americans; 5. Treaties and Land Cessions; 6. The Indian State and Removal; 7. The Effects of Removal; 8. Osage Culture and United States' Policy; 9. The Search for Comprehension; PART THREE: FACING THE FOUR HORSEMEN, 1850-1865; 10. Pestilence Strikes the People |
| 11. The White Man's War Visits the OsagesPART FOUR: THE EURO-AMERICAN AFFLICTION, 1865-1875; 12. The Outcasts; 13. Osage Land Cession of 1865; 14. The End of Indian Treaty-Making; 15. The Drum Creek Treaty; 16. The Osage Removal; 17. The Final Move; PART FIVE: THE ROAD TO ACCOMMODATION, 1875-1906; 18. Farewell to the Past; 19. Bluestem and Cattle; 20. Constitutional Government and Allotment; PART SIX: STANDING IN TWO WORLDS, 1906-1989; 21. Black Gold; 22. Indian Influences and the Modern Indian; 23. Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Traces 400 years of Osage culture from prehistoric times to the group's current status as an officially recognized tribe. Osage traditional lands are located in mid-continental America encompassed by the present-day states of Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Major waterways through these lands and the defensible terrain of the Ozark range provided the tribe a distinct advantage in prehistoric and early historic times. A warlike people, the Osage long encroached on neighboring tribal lands, especially those of the Caddo to the southwest. Yet good natural bou |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A history of the Osage people |
| ISBN: | 0-8173-8265-8 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910819637503321 |
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