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Cross-cultural crime and Osage justice in the western Mississippi valley, 1700-1826
Ethnohistory • 54 (4) • Published In 2007 • Pages: 697-722
By: DuVal, Kathleen.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article explores ideas of justice and punishment held by various Indians and Europeans, ending with the trial of several Osage men accused by the United States of the kind of killing that the Osage had done for a century in protection of their trade and land rights. It argues that Indian ways of cross-cultural interaction shaped interactions with Europeans and also changed in order to deal with the new hazards and opportunities that newcomers presented.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Warfare
- External relations
- Instigation of war
- Legal norms
- Litigation
- Offenses against life
- Offenses against the person
- Judicial authority
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External trade
- Real property
- Status, role, and prestige
- Weapons
- Ingroup antagonisms
- Ethnic stratification
- 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
- 1700-1826
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Osage Indians, USA
- NotesAdditional notes
- Kathleen DuVal
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 57043343
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Osage Indians