Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche indigenous language books Flora dies on All Souls'

Flora dies on All Souls' Day

All celebrating in song and dance

executive director of education and international affairs

and botanical information she shares in Plants Have So Much to Give Us

culminating in the infamous massacre at Wounded Knee of 250 Lakota men

Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche indigenous language books Flora dies on All Souls'The forty nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have never before been assembled in one book. What makes these stories especially important is that they were collected in their original language, Osage, by a scholar who was a native speaker of a mutually intelligible language, Omaha, and who was also highly educated and articulate in English. As