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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. |
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