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Traditions of the Osage [electronic resource] : stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche / edited and introduced by Garrick Bailey.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Osage Indians--Folklore.
- Osage Indians.
- Osage Indians--Rites and ceremonies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (194 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Sacred teachings, folk stories, and animal stories collected in their original language, Osage, between 1910 and 1923.
- Contents:
- Allegorical story of tribal organziation
- Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta)
- Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind)
- Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf)
- The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah)
- Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah)
- What to dream of (Saucy Calf)
- Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf)
- Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah)
- Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah)
- Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah)
- Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- Deer-hunting stories
- The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- Death of an old warrior
- Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah)
- Origin of the whistle bundle
- Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog)
- The lost warrior (Saucy Calf)
- Captive of the Pawnee
- The boy driven from home
- The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
- The youngest wife
- The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah)
- Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf)
- The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson)
- The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men
- Strange medicine man
- The death of Village Maker
- Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men
- The cruel medicine man and the orphan
- Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind)
- Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah)
- The woman dreamer
- Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah)
- The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler)
- The young warrier and his dead wife
- Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she)
- The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
- The demon animal (Ben Wheeler)
- The squirrel maidens
- The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
- The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
- The coyote and the woodpecker
- The coyote and the fawn.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-63716-2
- 0-8263-4852-1
- OCLC:
- 817819572
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