A history of the Osage people / Louis F. Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Louis F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Osage Indians--History.

Osage Indians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (594 p.)

Edition:

[New ed.].

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [529]-539) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8265-8

OCLC:

424524830