Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche activism yielding a truer account of

yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America

as these men and women must decide how far they are willing to go to save one another--and themselves

From the flooding Marshall Islands to revived wetlands in Iraq

at once reflects and creates the unique internal reality of each Native community

Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche activism yielding a truer account ofThe forty nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have never before been assembled in one book. What makes these stories especially important is that they were collected in their original language, Osage, by a scholar who was a native speaker of a mutually intelligible language, Omaha, and who was also highly educated and articulate in English. As