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Blessing for a long time : the sacred pole of the Omaha Tribe / Robin Ridington text, and Dennis Hastings (In'aska) illustrations and documentation.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, �1997.Description: 1 online resource (xxvii, 259 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0585272727
  • 9780585272726
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Blessing for a long time.DDC classification:
  • 299/.74 21
LOC classification:
  • E99.O4 R53 1998eb
Other classification:
  • cci1icc
Online resources: Action note:
  • digitized 2010 committed to preserve
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.

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.

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