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The Osage: An Ethnohistorical Study of Hegemony on the Prairie-Plains

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Meticulously researched and easy to read study of the rise and fall of the Osage tribe from the 16th through the 18th centuries. This book explains on both a human and a global level the economic and political processess at work in the prairies and southern plains during this period of history.

Rollins obviously did complete research on the Osage Nation & is able to communicate this information in an easily readible format. Maps compliment content & of all books I've read on the Osage Nation, this is the best. Rollins walks the reader through time, in a sequential manner, from when trappers first arrived in the Osage peoples territory to the 1840s, when their way of life & culture were overwhelmed & destroyed by the white man's "arrival" in the area.

If you desire just one, but most complete book on the Osage Nation, this is it!

A very scholarly written book. An excellent reference source for those researching the Osage Indian. However, the Author or publisher goofed on one of the References/Source cited: He cites " Wiggers, Robert "Osage Culture Change Inferred from Contact and Trade with the Caddo and Pawnee" an unpublished PH.D Dissertation, University of Missouri 1985. The Author of this Dissertation is Robert Wiegers, Professor of History, Central Methodist College, Fayette, MO. I am a former student of his and have a copy of the Dissertation. This is probably a typographical error, but it would confuse the researcher.