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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-100806117702
ISBN-139780806117706
eBay Product ID (ePID)522512
Product Key Features
Book TitleOsages : Children of the Middle Waters
Number of Pages848 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Native American
Publication Year1981
IllustratorYes
FeaturesReprint
GenreSocial Science, History
AuthorJohn Joseph Mathews
Book SeriesThe Civilization of the American Indian Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.9 in
Item Weight39.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN61-009006
TitleLeadingThe
Series Volume Number60
Edition DescriptionReprint
SynopsisPerhaps once in a generation a great book appears on the life of a people--less than a nation, more than a tribe--that reflects in a clear light the epic strivings of men and women everywhere, since the beginnings of time. The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters is such a book. Drawing from the oral history of his people before the coming of Europeans, the recorded history since, and his own lifetime among them, John Joseph Mathews created a truly epic history., Perhaps once in a generation a great book appears on the life of a people--less than a nation, more than a tribe--that reflects in a clear light the epic strivings of men and women everywhere, since the beginnings of time. The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters is such a book. Drawing from the oral history of his people before the coming of Europeans, the recorded history since, and his own lifetime among them, John Joseph Mathews created a truly epic history. This account of the Osages, a Siouan tribe once centered in the area now occupied by St. Louis, later on small streams in southwestern Missouri and southeastern Kansas, then in northeastern Oklahoma, is a spiritual one. Their quest in the centuries-long record was for the meaning of Wah'Kon-Tah, the Great Mysteries. In war, in peace, in camps and villages, in their land of the Middle Waters, the Osages met all of the changes and hardships people are likely to meet anywhere. Mathews tells the Osages' story with rare poetical feeling, in rhythms of language and with dramatic insights that surpass even his first book, Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road , which was selected by a major book club when published in 1932. Mathews managed his vast canvas with consummate skill, marking him as one of the major interpreters of American Indian life and history.
