After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land
in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb
to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught
of federal Indian policies, governmental officials, and missionary
zealots. At the same time, however, new circular wooden structures
appeared on some Omaha homesteads. Blending into the architectural
environment of the mainstream culture, these lodges provided the
ritual space in which dances and ceremonies could be conducted at a
time when such practices were coercively suppressed. Drawing on the
oral histories of forty Omaha elders collected in 1992, "Dance
Lodges of the Omaha People" provides insights into how these lodges
shaped Omaha cultural identity and illustrates the adaptive
abilities of the modern Omaha tribe. The lodges replaced the
diminished prereservation tribal institutions as maintainers of
tribal cohesion and unity and at the same time provided an arena
for selective acculturation of outside ideas and behaviors. A new
afterword by the author highlights advances in research on these
unique structures since 1992 and speculates on the connection
between these lodges and the spread of the Omaha Hethushka dance
across the Great Plains.
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