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An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830 - Three French Accounts (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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An Osage Journey to Europe, 1827-1830 - Three French Accounts (Paperback, Annotated edition)
Series: American Exploration and Travel Series
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Loot Price R556
Discovery Miles 5 560
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In 1827 six Osage people - four men and two women - traveled to
Europe escorted by three Americans. Their visit was big news in
France, where three short publications about the travelers appeared
almost immediately. Virtually lost since the 1830s, all three
accounts are gathered, translated, and annotated here for the first
time in English. Among the earliest writings devoted to Osage
history and culture, these works provide unique insights into Osage
life and especially into European perceptions of American Indians.
William Least Heat-Moon's introduction poignantly tells of people
leaving one alien nation, the United States, to visit an even more
alien culture an ocean away. In France the Osages found themselves
lionized as ""noble savages."" They went to the theater, rode in a
hot-air balloon, and even had an audience with the king of France.
Many Europeans ogled them as if they were exhibits in a freak show.
As the entourage moved through Belgium, Holland, Germany,
Switzerland, and Italy, interest in the Osages declined. Soon they
were reduced to begging in the suburbs of Paris, without the means
to return home. Translated by Heat-Moon and James K. Wallace, the
three featured texts are surprisingly accurate as basic
descriptions of Osage history, geography, and lifeways. The French
authors, influenced by racist and sexist expectations,
misinterpreted some of the behaviors they describe. But they also
dismiss rumors of cannibalism among the Osages and observe that
""the behavior of some whites . . . was not conducive to giving the
Indians a favorable opinion of white morality."" An Osage Journey
to Europe, 1827-1839 offers scholars and general readers both a
compelling story and a singular glimpse into nineteenth-century
cultural exchange.
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