Ebook: Osage and settler reconstructing shared history through an Oklahoma family archive
Author: Hess Janet Berry
- Tags: Geschichte, African Americans--Relations with Indians, Frontier and pioneer life, Frontier and pioneer life--Oklahoma, Kulturkontakt, Osage, Osage Indians, Osage Indians--Oklahoma--History, Race relations, Schwarze, Siedler, Weiße, History, Osage Indians -- Oklahoma -- History, African Americans -- Relations with Indians, Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma, Oklahoma -- Race relations -- History, Oklahoma
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: McFarland & Co
- City: Jefferson;NC;Oklahoma
- Language: English
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"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";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.
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