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John Joseph Mathews The Osages (Paperback). Title: The Osages. Author: John Joseph Mathews. Format: Paperback. Subtitle: Children of the Middle Waters. Country/Region of Manufacture: US. Language: English. Release Date: 12/15/1981. EAN: 9780806117706. Further DetailsTitle: The Osages Condition: New Subtitle: Children of the Middle Waters Author: John Joseph Mathews Format: Paperback EAN: 9780806117706 ISBN: 9780806117706 Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press Genre: History Topic: Social Sciences, Society & Culture Release Date: 12/15/1981 Description: 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. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 229mm Item Length: 152mm Item Width: 48mm Item Weight: 1107g Series: Civilization of the American Indian Series Release Year: 1981 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
