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OSAGE LIFE AND LEGENDS. Earth People / Sky PeopleOSAGE LIFE AND LEGENDS. Earth People / Sky People. By Robert M. Liebert. (1987), 1999, paper, Appex., Biblio., 139 pp. This book richly combines many aspects of Osage life; their livelihood, social organization, and spirituality just prior to white contact. Oral traditions of the Osage, a people that once formed one of the most powerful and influential tribes in North America, were handed down through the generations by a series of prose- poems they called `wi-gi-es', most of which have never been seen in anthologies of Native American poetry and legends. Few other tribes were as well-organized, and unique as the Tall Ones, the Osage; yet little is known or has been previously written of their way of life in the homeland they loved, the Ozarks and tall-grass prairie regions.
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