Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Robin Ridington, Dennis Hastings (In'aska), Dennis Hastings (Joint Author)Publish date:2000-04-01Pages:259
Language:EnglishPublisher:BisonISBN-13:9780803289819ISBN-10:803289812UPC:9780803289819Book Category:Social ScienceSize:9.00 x 6.01 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC5RHZKCVX
Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe
Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and convey the significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological texts (particularly Fletcher and La Flesche's The Omaha Tribe), Omaha narratives, and other historical and contemporary accounts are repeated-each time in a different, more enlightening context-in a...
Language:EnglishPublisher:BisonISBN-13:9780803289819ISBN-10:803289812UPC:9780803289819Book Category:Social ScienceSize:9.00 x 6.01 x 0.65 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC5RHZKCVX
Robin Ridington is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Trail to Heaven: Knowledge and Narrative in a Northern Native Community and other works. Dennis Hastings is the director of the Omaha Tribal Historical Research Project.
Publisher: Bison
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