Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche activism filmmakers

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Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche activism filmmakersThe 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