The Osage and the Invisible World: The Works of Francis La Flesche

by Francis La Flesche

Book Overview

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the religion of the Osage Indians, all gathered from the most knowledgeable Osage religious leaders of their day. Yet his writings have been largely overlooked because they were published piecemeal over the course of twenty-five years and never adequately collected or analyzed. In this book, Garrick A. Bailey...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806131322
• ISBN13: 9780806131320
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Non-Native and Native alike should not pass this one up!

This book is essential in the library of all Native Americans and Non-Native Americans alike. Forget the old stereotypes, this work based on the intense research of Francis LaFlesche, an anthropologist and Native himself, blows all pre-conceived notions of Native thought and society. The intense and complex cosmological musings harken back to the Greek philosophers and Eastern Taoism and Confucianism. Finally something that truly shows the complexity and diversity of the original peoples of this continent.