Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche

Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La FlescheThe forty nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have never before been assembled in one book. What makes these stories especially important is that they were collected in their original language, Osage, by a scholar who was a native speaker of a mutually intelligible language, Omaha, and who was also highly educated and articulate in English. As

which had already passed away by the time this book was published

Through the Aanjibimaadizing Project

" says award-winning Chickasaw poet and novelist Linda Hogan

"Compelling and lyrical

and the wisdom of Indigenous groups

he provides answers

Davis reveals how the survival schools contributed to the global movement for Indigenous decolonization as they helped Indian youth and their families to reclaim their cultural identities and build a distinctive Native community

his research and erudition vast

and the editor John Nicholds has included a full Ojibwe-English glossary with study aids

and late-term stillbirths to the poignant chronicles of miscarriages and mysterious infant deaths

from its origins in the visions of a Northern Paiute named Wovoka to the tragedy in South Dakota

Nicknamed the Mighty Muskrats for their habit of laughing