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The Osage and the valley of the middle Arkansas
Ethnohistory • 47 • Published In 1998 • Pages: 119-131
By: Bailey, Garrick Alan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
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 relationships were re-configured beginning with the 1680s with the arrival of the French trapper/traders.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Cultural identity and pride
- Historical reconstruction
- Community structure
- Community heads
- Inter-ethnic relations
- Settlement patterns
- Hunting and trapping
- External relations
- External trade
- Warfare
- Aftermath of combat
- Weapons
- Animal by-products
- Slavery
- Real property
- Peacemaking
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Osage
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Plains and Plateau
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2010
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1670-1859
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Osage Indians of Middle Arkansas Valley, USA
- NotesAdditional notes
- Garrick Bailey
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Osage Indians