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Our Osage Hills presents an exciting portrait of the Wahzhazhe
(Osage) people and their prairie homelands in the early twentieth
century and beyond, this book presents excellent lost work by the
charismatic Osage author and naturalist, John Joseph Mathews, plus
a wealth of contextual stories and Osage history. Dr. Michael
Snyder discovered, compiled, and edited Mathews's captivating
articles, and crafted researched commentaries; these articles and
commentaries interweave to form an Osage-centric chronicle of the
Great Depression. Using Mathews's articles as a cue, a prompt to
move through a vast memory palace, Snyder's pieces tell a broader
story of Osage cultural survivance, continuity, and the political
struggle for sovereignty; the involvement of Osages in high culture
performance and music; the special contributions of Osage women;
the novel of the West and novelists in the West; Hollywood as a
reflection, however distorted, of the Osage Nation and the
surrounding nation; Indian athletics, especially baseball; and
crucially, birds, animals, and the beginning of ecological
understanding and the emergence of environmental protection. The
essays also offer new discoveries on the Osage murders of the
1920s, and show the continued white exploitation and violence
against Osages during the 1930s. Through this entertaining and
wide-ranging study, the reader will gain a new and fuller
understanding of the Wahzhazhe people and their homeland.
In centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the
center of North America, from Canada's Prairie Provinces to central
Texas. This once-plentiful prairie has now all but disappeared.
Humans have grazed, mowed, and plowed the plains, dammed the
rivers, and imposed their will on the land and its creatures.
Fortunately, some remnants have survived, including the Joseph H.
Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma. In
this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne
and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one
of America's Last Great Places. Spanning nearly 40,000 acres in
Oklahoma's Osage County, the Preserve is a living witness to a
world that once existed. But the Osage prairie is not a museum or
theme park - and it is not frozen in time. Under the stewardship of
The Nature Conservancy, which has overseen its restoration, the
Preserve lives on as a fully functioning ecosystem. And for
twenty-five years, Payne and Ronda have explored these lands,
together and in solitude. Rendered here in brilliant color and
paired with Ronda's informative yet deeply personal commentary,
Payne's photographs open our eyes to the ever-changing world of the
Tallgrass Preserve. In chapters focused on grass, sky, birds,
bison, and fire, Ronda and Payne reveal that the ""Big Empty"" is,
in fact, teeming with life. Through interwoven images and words,
Visions of the Tallgrass shows that our nation's grasslands are
sacred ground, a priceless piece of our American past - and future.
This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from "Our
Osage Hills," a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer,
naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews. Signed only with
the initials "J.J.M.," Mathews's column featured regularly in the
Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital during the early 1930s. While
Mathews is best known for his novel Sundown (1934), the pieces
gathered in this volume reveal him to be a compelling essayist.
Marked by wit and erudition, Mathews's column not only evokes the
unique beauty of the Osage prairie, but also takes on urgent
political issues, such as ecological conservation and Osage
sovereignty. In Our Osage Hills, Michael Snyder interweaves
Mathews's writings with original essays that illuminate their
relevant historical and cultural contexts. The result is an
Osage-centric chronicle of the Great Depression, a time of
environmental and economic crisis for the Osage Nation and country
as a whole. Drawing on new historical and biographical research,
Snyder's commentaries highlight the larger stakes of Mathews's
reflections on nature and culture and situate them within a
fascinating story about Osage, Native American, and American life
in the early twentieth century. In treating topics that range from
sports, art, film, and literature to the realities and legacies of
violence against the Osages, Snyder conveys the broad spectrum of
Osage familial, social, and cultural history.
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