Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche Shawnee From the story of dashed

From the story of dashed cultural expectations in an interracial marriage to poems that speak of loss across generations

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recording stories and documenting storytelling practices and examining the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition as both an ancient and contemporary literary form

Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche Shawnee From the story of dashedThe 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