Traditions of the Osage
Subtitle: stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche
By: edited and introduced by Garrick Bailey
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Albuquerque
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780826348500
Description: Collection of 49 folk tales from the Osage Indian tribe gathered by scholar Francis la Flesche.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Allegorical story of tribal organziation; title: Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta); title: Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind); title: Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf); title: The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah); title: Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah); title: What to dream of (Saucy Calf); title: Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf); title: Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah); title: Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah); title: Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah); title: Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: Deer-hunting stories; title: The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: Death of an old warrior; title: Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah); title: Origin of the whistle bundle; title: Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog); title: The lost warrior (Saucy Calf); title: Captive of the Pawnee; title: The boy driven from home; title: The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga); title: The youngest wife; title: The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah); title: Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf); title: The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson); title: The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men; title: Strange medicine man; title: The death of Village Maker; title: Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men; title: The cruel medicine man and the orphan; title: Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind); title: Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah); title: The woman dreamer; title: Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah); title: The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler); title: The young warrier and his dead wife; title: Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she); title: The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga); title: The demon animal (Ben Wheeler); title: The squirrel maidens; title: The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga); title: The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga); title: The coyote and the woodpecker; title: The coyote and the fawn.