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Osage and settler : reconstructing shared history through an Oklahoma family archive / Janet Berry Hess.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hess, Janet Berry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Osage Indians--Oklahoma--History.
- Osage Indians.
- African Americans--Relations with Indigenous peoples.
- African Americans.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Oklahoma.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Oklahoma--Race relations--History.
- Oklahoma.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on a rare family archive and archival material from the Osage Nation, this book documents a unique relationship among white settlers, the Osage and African Americans in Oklahoma. The history of white settlement and colonization is often discussed in the context of the cultural erasure of, and violence perpetuated against, American Indians and enslaved blacks. Conversely, histories of American Indian nations often end with colonial conquest, and exclude the experiences of white settlers. The author's anthropological approach examines the lived experience of individuals--including her ow
- Contents:
- Osage culture and European arrival: culture, trade and imperialism
- "Embodied anthropology": settlers, Osage and African Americans
- The settler, the trader and the cowboy
- Architecture: the church of immaculate conception and the one-room school
- The "invisible world": wa-kon-da, body ornamentation and the sacred bundle
- Turning the century: the land run and the "civilization" of the Osage
- "Even poor varieties may be made sweet": women's labor and constructions of femininity
- Family and osage extravagence and the oil boom
- The "empire of vision": exhibition, photography and Pawnee Bill
- "The view from Persimmon Hill": my daddy, my mama and federal policy in the 1950s
- "The most beautiful blazing blue sky and emerald green fields": memory and the sense of place
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4766-2117-9
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