we are told

Born at a traditional Inuit camp in what is now Nunavut

and stories (many in bilingual Ishishkíin-English format) about family life

Based on a more than decade-long reciprocal relationship with the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation

Gerald Vizenor has earned a wide and devoted audience for his poetry

Traditions of the Osage: Stories Collected and Translated by Francis La Flesche Molalla we are toldThe 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