Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche indigenous language books As the author chronicles the

As the author chronicles the collective tragedy of the massacres

culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men

a visionary whose politics are inextricable from her fiction

which blends tourism and history

Flora dies on All Souls' Day

Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche indigenous language books As the author chronicles theThe 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