|
|
osage |
|
|
osage |
|
To order ANY of the books listed on this site, click the item's Order Number. |
|
|
Osage
Indian Bands and Clans
The grandson of an Osage Indian, author Louis
Burns wrote this primer to help persons of Osage descent trace their
paternal lineage and to introduce researchers to Osage culture and the
nuances of its language. The book opens with a discussion of the Osage
dispersion from Missouri to Oklahoma and Kansas from about 1800 to 1870.
Mr. Burns provides very helpful maps showing the concentration of the
various tribal bands in each state. Next comes a summary of the richest
sources of 19th-century Osage heritage, namely, Jesuit records, a great
source of information concerning baptisms, marriages and interments;
U.S. Government Annuity Rolls; and Osage Mission records, the best
source of Osage family data. The aforementioned is followed by a list of
tribal towns, as extracted from Jesuit records, and a list of Osage
bands as found in the Annuity Rolls of 1878. When these sources are used
in conjunction with the author's detailed listing of clans and their
members, which furnishes names in both phonetic Osage and English,
researchers stand a good chance of tracing their Native American
heritage from about 1800 to the present. The balance of this carefully
crafted volume focuses on aspects of the language, some knowledge of
which is indispensable for successful research. Featured are an index to
Osage names in Osage and in English, a listing of and indexes to kinship
terms, a critical pronunciation key to Osage, and a conversion table for
Osage Indian syllables. Mr. Burns' seminal work concludes with a
bibliography of tribal literature. |
|
|
The
Indian Tribes of North America This is the definitive one-volume guide to the Indian tribes of North America, and it covers all groupings such as nations, confederations, tribes, subtribes, clans, and bands. It is a vast and impressive digest of all Indian groups and their historical locations throughout the continent. Formatted as a dictionary, or gazetteer, and organized by state, it includes all known tribal groupings within the state and the many villages where they were located. Using the year 1650 to determine the general location of most of the tribes, Swanton has drawn four over-sized fold-out maps, each depicting a different quadrant of North America and the location of the various tribes therein, including not only the tribes of the United States, Canada, Greenland, Mexico, and Central America, but the Caribbean islands as well. According to the author, the gazetteer and the maps are "intended to inform the general reader what Indian tribes occupied the territory of his State and to add enough data to indicate the place they occupied among the tribal groups of the continent and the part they played in the early period of our history. . . ." Accordingly, the bulk of the text includes such facts as the origin of the tribal name and a brief list of the more important synonyms; the linguistic connections of the tribe; its location; a brief sketch of its history; its population at different periods; and the extent to which its name has been perpetuated geographically. As far as possible each tribe, or group, is treated as an independent entity, but the work as a whole forms an absolutely comprehensive picture of the Indian tribes of North America, and leaves no question unanswered about any tribal grouping, big or small. Along with the bibliography and index, and the imprimatur of its original publisher, the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology, Swanton's book is an authoritative digest of the Indian tribes of North America, and it is the one book that you'll need as a desk reference in your Native American research. |
Want to know when we add more titles?
Join our Mailing List! H
|
A
proud affiliate of
|
Keep Up-To-Date... |
Tell A Friend About
|
bravenet.com