Contents
Illustrations 000
Preface to the New Edition 000
Preface to the First Edition 000
Part One: The Ascent of the Osage People, 12001803
1. Osage Origins 000
2. The Osage Empire 000
3. Osage Relationships with Euro-Americans, 16751803000
Part Two: Eroding the Osage Civilization, 18031850
4. Coming of the Americans 000
5. Treaties and Land Cessions 000
6. The Indian State and Removal 000
7. The Effects of Removal 000
8. Osage Culture and United Statesþ Policy 000
9. The Search for Comprehension 000
Part Three: Facing the Four Horsemen, 18501865
10. Pestilence Strikes the People 000
11. The White Man's War Visits the Osages 000
Part Four: The Euro-American Affliction, 18651875
12. The Outcasts 000
13. Osage Land Cession of 1865 000
14. The End of Indian Treaty-Making 000
15. The Drum Creek Treaty 000
16. The Osage Removal 000
17. The Final Move 000
Part Five: The Road to Accommodation, 18751906
18. Farewell to the Past 000
19. Bluestem and Cattle 000
20. Constitutional Government and Allotment 000
Part Six: Standing in Two Worlds, 19061989 000
21. Black Gold 000
22. Indian Influences and the Modern Indian 000
23. Epilogue 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Osage Indians History