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Omaha Indians --- Social life and customs.

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

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Pawnee Indians --- Oto Indians --- Omaha Indians --- Society of Friends --- Government relations. --- History --- Government relations --- Indians of North America --- Nebraska (Etat) --- 19th century --- Pawnee Indians - Government relations. --- Oto Indians - Government relations. --- Omaha Indians - Government relations. --- Society of Friends - Nebraska - History - 19th century.

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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

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"Alice C. Fletcher (1838-1923), one of the few women who became anthropologists in the United States during the nineteenth century, was a pioneer in the practice of participant-observation ethnography. She focused her studies over many years among the Native tribes in Nebraska and South Dakota. Life among the Indians, Fletcher's popularized autobiographical memoir written in 1886-87 about her first fieldwork among the Sioux and the Omahas during 1881-82, remained unpublished in Fletcher's archives at the Smithsonian Institution for more than one hundred years. In it Fletcher depicts the humor and hardships of her field experiences as a middle-aged woman undertaking anthropological fieldwork alone, while showing genuine respect and compassion for Native ways and beliefs that was far ahead of her time. What emerges is a complex and fascinating picture of a woman questioning the cultural and gender expectations of nineteenth-century America while insightfully portraying rapidly changing reservation life. Fletcher's account of her early fieldwork is available here for the first time, accompanied by an essay by the editors that sheds light on Fletcher's place in the development of anthropology and the role of women in the discipline. "--

Women anthropologists --- Dakota Indians --- Omaha Indians --- Social life and customs. --- Fletcher, Alice C. --- Anthropologists, Women --- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI). --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies. --- Anthropologists --- Women social scientists