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Our Osage Hills
Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century
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2020
Summary
This revealing book presents a selection of lost articles from “Our Osage Hills,” a newspaper column by the renowned Osage writer, naturalist, and historian, John Joseph Mathews. Signed only with the initials “J.J.M.,” Mathews’s column featured regularly in the Pawhuska Daily Journal-Capital during the early 1930s. While Mathews is best known for his novel Sundown (1934), the pieces gathered in this volume reveal him to be a compelling essayist. Marked by wit and erudition, Mathews’s column not only evokes the unique beauty of the Osage prairie, but also takes on urgent political issues, such as ecological conservation and Osage sovereignty. In Our Osage Hills, Michael Snyder interweaves Mathews’s writings with original essays that illuminate their relevant historical and cultural contexts. The result isan Osage-centric chronicle of the Great Depression, a time of environmental and economic crisis for the Osage Nation and country as a whole. Drawing on new historical and biographical research, Snyder’s commentaries highlight the larger stakes of Mathews’s reflections on nature and culture and situate them within a fascinating story about Osage, Native American, and American life in the early twentieth century. In treating topics that range from sports, art, film, and literature to the realities and legacies of violence against the Osages, Snyder conveys the broad spectrum of Osage familial, social, and cultural history.
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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-61146-301-9
ISBN-Online
978-1-61146-302-6
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
322
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Photographs No access
Foreword by Harvey Payne No access
Foreword by Russ Tall Chief No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
Part I. Scene Setting No access Pages 13 - 32
Part II. Birds of the Osage No access Pages 33 - 50
Part III. Culture and Politics No access Pages 51 - 112
Part IV. Romance of the Osage No access Pages 113 - 132
Part V. African Americans No access Pages 133 - 142
Part VI. Autumn No access Pages 143 - 154
Part VII. Man in Nature No access Pages 155 - 172
Part VIII. Osage Women and Others No access Pages 173 - 208
Part IX. Conservation No access Pages 209 - 228
Part X. Critique of Settler Colonialism No access Pages 229 - 256
