Osage and settler
Subtitle: reconstructing shared history through an Oklahoma family archive
By: Janet Berry Hess
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780786495825; 9781476621173
Subjects: Race relations; Relations with Indians; Frontier and pioneer life; African Americans; Osage Indians; History
Description: "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 author's anthropological approach examines the lived experience of individuals and their nuanced and intersecting relationships as they negotiated cultural and geographic landscapes of oppression and technological change"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-218) and index.
Table of contents: title: Osage culture and European arrival: culture, trade and imperialism; title: "Embodied anthropology": settlers, Osage and African Americans; title: The settler, the trader and the cowboy; title: Architecture: the church of immaculate conception and the one-room school; title: The "invisible world": wa-kon-da, body ornamentation and the sacred bundle; title: Turning the century: the land run and the "civilization" of the Osage; title: "Even poor varieties may be made sweet": women's labor and constructions of femininity; title: Family and osage extravagence and the oil boom; title: The "empire of vision": exhibition, photography and Pawnee Bill; title: "The view from Persimmon Hill": my daddy, my mama and federal policy in the 1950s; title: "The most beautiful blazing blue sky and emerald green fields": memory and the sense of place; title: Conclusion.