Osage and Settler

Janet Berry Hess teaches African, African American, and American Indian culture and gender studies at the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies, Sonoma State University.

• Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Osage Culture and European Arrival: Culture, Trade and Imperialism2. Embodied Anthropology: Settlers, Osage and African Americans3. The Settler, the Trader and the Cowboy4. Architecture: The Church of Immaculate Conception and the One–Room School5. The “Invisible World”: Wa–kon-da, Body Ornamentation and the Sacred Bundle6. Turning the Century: The Land Run and the “Civilization” of the Osage7. “Even poor varieties may be made sweet”: Women’s Labor and Constructions of Femininity8. Family and Osage Extravagence and the Oil Boom9. The “Empire of Vision”: Exhibition, Photography and Pawnee Bill10. “The View from Persimmon Hill”: My Daddy, My Mama and Federal Policy in the 1950s11. “The most beautiful blazing blue sky and emerald green fields”: Memory and the Sense of PlaceConclusionAppendix: Ross Hess’s WritingsChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“a scholarly examination of the history and relationship between white settlers, African-Americans, and the Osage of Oklahoma...highly recommended”—Midwest Book Review.