Traditions of the Osage : stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche /

Traditions of the Osage : stories collected and translated by Francis la Flesche / / edited and introduced by Garrick Bailey.

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La Flesche, Francis, 1857-1932.
Bailey, Garrick Alan.
ProQuest (Firm)
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 176 p. :; ill., map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Allegorical story of tribal organziation
  • Origin story of the Wolf Clan (Pah-nee-wah-with-ta)
  • Origin story of the Black Bear Clan (Bacon Rind)
  • Creation of the house of mystery (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • Earth names and sky names (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • Origin story of the Sho'-ka (Saucy Calf)
  • The tattooing custom (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • Haircut of the gentle sky clan (Shun-kah-mo-lah)
  • Finding of the four colors (Hlu-ah-wah-tah)
  • What to dream of (Saucy Calf)
  • Instructions to the mother (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • Instructions to the wife of a priest (Saucy Calf)
  • Instructions in the painting of the sacred robes (Hlu-ah-wah-tah)
  • Counting the O'don (Shun-kah-mo-lah)
  • Tradition of the Omaha departure form the Osage (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah)
  • Making the Buffalo come (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • Deer-hunting stories
  • The vision of a war leader (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • Death of an old warrior
  • Origin of the hair bundle (Me-ke-wah-ti-an-kah)
  • Origin of the whistle bundle
  • Origin of the mourning dance (Black Dog)
  • The lost warrior (Saucy Calf)
  • Captive of the Pawnee
  • The boy driven from home
  • The woman war leader (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
  • The youngest wife
  • The unfaithful wife (Pah-nee-wah-with-tah)
  • Mourning dance for yellow ears (Saucy Calf)
  • The two young men who mourned their living fater (Andrew Jackson)
  • The wa-kon'-da-gi, or medicine men
  • Strange medicine man
  • The death of Village Maker
  • Big Bear and Runs-to-meet-men
  • The cruel medicine man and the orphan
  • Wah-ti-an-kah (Bacon Rind)
  • Dreamers (Shun-kah-mo-lah)
  • The woman dreamer
  • Spirit woman (Hlu-ah-wah-tah)
  • The flute ghost story (Ben Wheeler)
  • The young warrier and his dead wife
  • Return of the dead (Charles Wah-hre-she)
  • The little people (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
  • The demon animal (Ben Wheeler)
  • The squirrel maidens
  • The hawk and the horned owl (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
  • The four coyotes and the persimmons (Tho'-xi Zhin-ga)
  • The coyote and the woodpecker
  • The coyote and the fawn.

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