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The Omaha Language and the Omaha Way provides a comprehensive textbook for students, scholars, and laypersons to learn to speak and understand the language of the Omaha Nation. Mark Awakuni-Swetland, Vida Woodhull Stabler, Aubrey Streit Krug, Loren Frerichs, and Rory Larson have collaborated with elder speakers, including Alberta Grant Canby, Emmaline Walker Sanchez, Marcella Woodhull Cavou, and Donna Morris Parker, to write this book. The original and creative pedagogical method used in this textbook—teaching the Omaha language through Omaha culture—consists of a structured series of lesson plans. It is the result of a generous collaboration between the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and the Umóⁿhoⁿ Language and Culture Center at Umóⁿhoⁿ Nation Public School in Macy, Nebraska. The method draws on the accumulated wisdom and knowledge of Awakuni-Swetland to illustrate the Omaha values of balance and integration. The contents are shaped into two parts, each of which complements the other—just as the Earth and Sky do. This textbook features an introduction by Awakuni-Swetland on the history and phonology of the Omaha language; lessons from the Umóⁿhoⁿ Language and Culture Center at Macy, with a writing system quick sheet; situation quick sheets; lessons on games; lessons on spring, summer, fall, and winter; an Omaha language resource list; and a glossary in the standard Macy orthography of the Omaha language. The textbook also includes cultural lessons in the language by Awakuni-Swetland and lessons from the Omaha language class at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Omaha dialect --- Omaha language --- Omaha-Ponca language --- History. --- History

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"The Women Who Built Omaha explores the important contributions of women to Omaha while placing those contributions in the context of social history. Wirth describes the activities of local women in numerous fields from the 1850s to the modern women's movement in the 1970s, bringing to life those who have been overlooked throughout history"--

Women --- Social conditions. --- Omaha (Neb.) --- History.

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Journalists --- Authors, American --- Peattie, Elia Wilkinson, --- Nebraska --- Omaha (Neb.) --- Omaha City (Neb.) --- City of Omaha (Neb.) --- State of Nebraska --- Nebraska Territory --- Social life and customs.

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Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and 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 circle of stories seamlessly woven around Umon'hon'ti. The result is an innovative account that effortlessly glides between past and present. The distinct personality of Umon'hon'ti emerges and becomes the principal actor in the drama of its history and return. This unique blend of ethnography, ethnohistory, and Omaha poetics promises to make a significant contribution to our understanding of the religious life of Native Americans.

Sacred Pole (Omaha rite) --- Omaha Indians --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- Ethnic & Race Studies --- Dhegiha Indians --- Indians of North America --- Sacred Pole Ceremony (Omaha rite) --- Umonhonti (Omaha rite) --- Religion. --- History. --- Material culture. --- Religion --- History --- Material culture --- Rites and ceremonies --- Omaha Indians.

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Eleanor Baxter, Alice Saunsoci, and Hawate (Wenona Caramony) are female elders of the Omaha Tribe in Macy, in the northeast corner of Nebraska. All three grew up on the Omaha reservation, moved away in later life, and held careers outside the reservation. Yet all returned to their community, bringing the skills they learned in the "white world" and the knowledge they gained as children from their own elders to contribute to the well-being of the Omaha people.

Oral history --- Omaha Indians --- Indian leadership --- Older women --- Omaha women --- History --- Oral biography --- Oral tradition --- Dhegiha Indians --- Indians of North America --- Leadership --- Aged women --- Older people --- Women --- Women, Omaha --- Social life and customs. --- Methodology --- Háwate. --- Saunsoci, Alice. --- Baxter, Eleanor. --- Macy (Neb.) --- Hawate.