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Traditions of the Osage - Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche (Hardcover)
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Traditions of the Osage - Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche (Hardcover)
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The 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
contextualized in Garrick Bailey's introduction, these stories
offer insights into Osage culture and society that are not
available elsewhere. Bailey divides the stories into sacred
teachings, folk stories, and animal stories. To the Osage, the
sacred included not only religious but also what we would consider
social and political institutions. Unlike the sacred teachings,
which were known only to priests, folk tales were public property.
Sacred teachings were always educational, whereas folk stories
served a variety of purposes. Some were entertaining, some
humorous, some frightening, but all were also designed to instill
the proper social norms and values of the Osage. The animal
stories, intended for children, also illustrate Osage values, as
well as conveying information about the animals themselves.
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