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Osage
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Another white man, when asked what he did for a living, said by way of an answer that he’d married an Osage woman, and everyone who listened understood what that meant.
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― Mean Spirit
― Mean Spirit
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Along the way, decisions about interpretation and presentation were made. Very clearly, it was decided the Osage viewpoint would prevail - it would hold the center stage. If I have erred I have tried to err on behalf of the Osages. Some will accuse me of being biased in favor of the Osages. My answer is, “it is time for some bias in favor of the Osages - there has been so much bias against them.”
Another priority is to avoid the “Lo! The poor Indian,“ practice, which seeks to point to the great
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― A History of the Osage People
― A History of the Osage People
