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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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Dhegiha language. --- Omaha Indians. --- Ponca Indians.

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"Using some of his landmark publications on kinship, along with a new introduction, chapter and conclusion, Robert Parkin discusses here the changes in kinship terminologies and marriage practices, as well as the dialectics between them. The chapters also focus on a suggested trajectory, linking South Asia and Europe and the specific question of the status of Crow-Omaha systems. The collection culminates in the argument that, whereas marriage systems and practices seem infinitely varied when examined from a very close perspective, the terminologies that accompany them are much more restricted"--

Kinship --- Marriage - Social aspects --- Cross-cousin marriage --- Kinship - India --- Crow Indians - Kinship --- Omaha Indians - Kinship --- Kinship. --- Marriage --- Cross-cousin marriage. --- Social aspects. --- Cousin marriage --- Married life --- Matrimony --- Nuptiality --- Wedlock --- Love --- Sacraments --- Betrothal --- Courtship --- Families --- Home --- Honeymoons --- Ethnology --- Clans --- Consanguinity --- Kin recognition --- Anthropology (General), Sociology. --- Crow Indians --- Omaha Indians

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"Mildred Dee Brown (1905-89) was the cofounder of Nebraska's Omaha Star, the longest running black newspaper founded by an African American woman in the United States. Known for her trademark white carnation corsage, Brown was the matriarch of Omaha's Near North Side--a historically black part of town--and an iconic city leader. Her remarkable life, a product of the Reconstruction era and Jim Crow, reflects a larger American history that includes the Great Migration, the Red Scare of the post-World War era, civil rights and black power movements, desegregation, and urban renewal. Within the context of African American and women's history studies, Amy Helene Forss's Black Print with a White Carnation examines the impact of the black press through the narrative of Brown's life and work. Forss draws on more than 150 oral histories, numerous black newspapers, and government documents to illuminate African American history during the political and social upheaval of the twentieth century. During Brown's fifty-one-year tenure, the Omaha Star became a channel of communication between black and white residents of the city, as well as an arena for positive weekly news in the black community. Brown and her newspaper led successful challenges to racial discrimination, unfair employment practices, restrictive housing covenants, and a segregated public school system, placing the woman with the white carnation at the center of America's changing racial landscape. "--

HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage. --- African American newspapers --- Newspaper editors --- African American women newspaper editors --- Afro-American newspapers --- Negro newspapers (American) --- African American press --- American newspapers --- Editors --- Journalists --- Women newspaper editors, African American --- Women newspaper editors --- Brown, Mildred Dee, --- Brown, Mildred, --- Omaha star.

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'Follow the Flag' offers an authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this text provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events.

TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / History. --- Wabash Railroad --- Wabash Railroad Company --- Wabash RR Co. --- Wabash Railway Company --- Fort Wayne and Detroit Railroad Company --- Montpelier and Chicago Railroad Company of Ohio --- Montpelier and Chicago Railroad Company of Indiana --- St. Louis, Council Bluffs, and Omaha Railroad Company --- St. Louis, Ottumwa, and Cedar Rapids Railway Company --- Ann Arbor Railroad Company --- History. --- Jay Gould, Cannon Ball song, Blue Bird passenger trains, Pacific Railway Compnay, Wabash. --- Railroads --- History