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Culture summaryessay 2011 • Bailey, Garrick Alan
Osage • North America > Plains and Plateau
This is a culture summary of the Osage. Information is presented on major aspects of the Osage culture....Osageessay 2001 • Bailey, Garrick Alan
Osage • North America > Plains and Plateau
This article provides a brief introduction to Osage culture and history. Coverage includes Osage oral traditions relating to origin and migration, resistance to incorporation, life in reservation, and recent socioeconomic changes. The article was ori...Changes in Osage social organization, 1673-1906Book 1973 • Bailey, Garrick Alan
Osage • North America > Plains and Plateau
This book discusses changes that took place in Osage social organization from the time of European contact in 1673 until the privatization of their reservation in 1906. It does this by contrasting salient features of Osage political organization, uni...The Osage and the valley of the middle Arkansasarticle 1998 • Bailey, Garrick Alan
Osage • North America > Plains and Plateau
This document is a brief description of the Osage of the middle Arkansas valley, with particular reference to their relationships with other Indian groups including culturally related Quapaw, Otoe, Omaha and Ponca. It describes the ways these relatio...A history of the NavajosBook 1986 • Bailey, Garrick Alan & Bailey, Roberta Glenn
Navajo • North America > Southwest and Basin
In this comprehensive history of the Navajo reservation, Bailey and Bailey look at the U.S. government-Navajo relations, the implementation of various social and economic programs, and their effects. The authors focus on changes in the Navajo economy...The Osage and the invisible worldBook 1995 • La Flesche, Francis & Bailey, Garrick Alan
Osage • North America > Plains and Plateau
This book is concerned with the nature of Osage religion. The focus is on change and continuity in the religious life of the Osage by contrasting ethnographic information from his own fieldwork in mid-1960 to 1970s with that of Francis La Flesche, a ...