Indigenous Missourians: Ancient Societies to the Present
Autor Greg Olsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iun 2023
The history of Indigenous people in present-day Missouri is far more nuanced, complex, and vibrant than the often-told tragic stories of conflict with white settlers and forced Indian removal would lead us to believe. In this path-breaking narrative, Greg Olson presents the Show Me State’s Indigenous past as one spanning twelve millennia of Native presence, resilience, and evolution. While previous Missouri histories have tended to include Indigenous people only during periods when they constituted a threat to the state’s white settlement, Olson shows us the continuous presence of Native people that includes the present day.
Beginning thousands of years before the state of Missouri existed, Olson recounts how centuries of inventiveness and adaptability enabled Native people to create innovations in pottery, agriculture, architecture, weaponry, and intertribal diplomacy. Olson also shows how the resilience of Indigenous people like the Osages allowed them to thrive as fur traders, even as settler colonialists waged an all-out policy of cultural genocide against them.
Though the state of Missouri claimed to have forced Indigenous people from its borders after the 1830s, Olson uses U.S. Census records and government rolls from the allotment period to show that thousands remained. In the end, he argues that, with a current population of 27,000 Indigenous people, Missouri remains very much a part of Indian Country, and that Indigenous history is Missouri history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826222824
ISBN-10: 082622282X
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 16 B&W photos; 12 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: University of Missouri Press
Colecția University of Missouri
ISBN-10: 082622282X
Pagini: 448
Ilustrații: 16 B&W photos; 12 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 43 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: University of Missouri Press
Colecția University of Missouri
Recenzii
“Indigenous Missourians covers the remarkable history of Missouri. Starting 12,000 years ago and moving to the present, it pulls together numerous resources and is easy to read. From the first people living in what is now Missouri, through European contact, treaties, wars, and up to today, this book covers it all. Indigenous Missourians has been needed for a long time and is a valuable resource for Indigenous people, Missourians, historians, and those that love U.S. history and world events.”—Candace Sall, Director of the Museum of Anthropology, University of Missouri, Columbia
“As an Osage and educator, I’m glad to see part of our history explored in Indigenous Missourians. Olson has taken steps to ensure that the Indigenous perspective remains a guiding principle throughout the historical narrative, bringing much-needed balance to the telling of our story.”—Jimmy Beason II, Haskell Indian Nation University, author of Native Americans in History: A History Book for Kids
“Greg Olson has carried out an important survey of Indigenous peoples in the land we now call Missouri, one that covers many Indigenous nations, a broad swath of time, and challenges long-held myths and stereotypes.”—Tai S. Edwards, Director of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College, author of Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power
“With his sixth book, subtitled Ancient Societies to the Present [Olson] interweaves Native history and state history, with some particularly original research after the Civil War.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Olson has taken on the formidable task of writing a survey of the entire Indigenous history of Missouri—a history so chock-full of movement and migration (often forced), conflict, and adaptation that it can be extraordinarily challenging to synthesize into a single narrative. Yet Olson has succeeded admirably at the task, giving both scholars and lay readers a valuable resource in the process.” —Missouri Historical Review
“In this welcome new book Greg Olson seeks to rescue Indigenous people and their long-suppressed voices from the margins of Missouri’s traditional histories. He deftly explores the creativity and adaptability that enabled them to sustain an ongoing presence in the continental heartland from earliest times to the present day. This comprehensive synthesis of the thoughts and actions of Indigenous Missourians, past and present, will find a welcome place on the bookshelves of academics and history buffs alike.”—William E. Foley, University of Central Missouri, author of Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark
“In addition to being a highly readable narrative history, the book provides two truly invaluable contributions that will no doubt be appreciated by history buffs, students, and serious scholars. One is a very thorough bibliography, which tips the scales at almost twenty pages. The other is the exceptionally handy and helpful maps—twelve of them, many crafted by the author himself, which should prove wonderfully useful for those trying to approximate the locations of various peoples over time. Indigenous Missourians would be a fine addition to the library of anyone with an interest in midwestern or Indigenous history.”—Kansas History
“Olson’s 11 chapters provide a deep dive into Missouri history, seamlessly incorporating data from the archaeological record, tribal oral traditions, and more recent historical sources to create a highly readable text readily accessible to both more scholarly minded readers as well as the interested public . . . . In short, Olson skillfully navigates the nuances of geography, disparate peoples, and evolving cultural relationships that stretch across the millennia of the Missouri Indigenous experience to chart a coherent and richly documented history that fully articulates with—and enhances appreciation of—the position of today’s Indigenous peoples in Missouri politics, economics, and social life.”—Annals of Iowa
“As an Osage and educator, I’m glad to see part of our history explored in Indigenous Missourians. Olson has taken steps to ensure that the Indigenous perspective remains a guiding principle throughout the historical narrative, bringing much-needed balance to the telling of our story.”—Jimmy Beason II, Haskell Indian Nation University, author of Native Americans in History: A History Book for Kids
“Greg Olson has carried out an important survey of Indigenous peoples in the land we now call Missouri, one that covers many Indigenous nations, a broad swath of time, and challenges long-held myths and stereotypes.”—Tai S. Edwards, Director of the Kansas Studies Institute at Johnson County Community College, author of Osage Women and Empire: Gender and Power
“With his sixth book, subtitled Ancient Societies to the Present [Olson] interweaves Native history and state history, with some particularly original research after the Civil War.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch
“Olson has taken on the formidable task of writing a survey of the entire Indigenous history of Missouri—a history so chock-full of movement and migration (often forced), conflict, and adaptation that it can be extraordinarily challenging to synthesize into a single narrative. Yet Olson has succeeded admirably at the task, giving both scholars and lay readers a valuable resource in the process.” —Missouri Historical Review
“In this welcome new book Greg Olson seeks to rescue Indigenous people and their long-suppressed voices from the margins of Missouri’s traditional histories. He deftly explores the creativity and adaptability that enabled them to sustain an ongoing presence in the continental heartland from earliest times to the present day. This comprehensive synthesis of the thoughts and actions of Indigenous Missourians, past and present, will find a welcome place on the bookshelves of academics and history buffs alike.”—William E. Foley, University of Central Missouri, author of Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark
“In addition to being a highly readable narrative history, the book provides two truly invaluable contributions that will no doubt be appreciated by history buffs, students, and serious scholars. One is a very thorough bibliography, which tips the scales at almost twenty pages. The other is the exceptionally handy and helpful maps—twelve of them, many crafted by the author himself, which should prove wonderfully useful for those trying to approximate the locations of various peoples over time. Indigenous Missourians would be a fine addition to the library of anyone with an interest in midwestern or Indigenous history.”—Kansas History
“Olson’s 11 chapters provide a deep dive into Missouri history, seamlessly incorporating data from the archaeological record, tribal oral traditions, and more recent historical sources to create a highly readable text readily accessible to both more scholarly minded readers as well as the interested public . . . . In short, Olson skillfully navigates the nuances of geography, disparate peoples, and evolving cultural relationships that stretch across the millennia of the Missouri Indigenous experience to chart a coherent and richly documented history that fully articulates with—and enhances appreciation of—the position of today’s Indigenous peoples in Missouri politics, economics, and social life.”—Annals of Iowa
Notă biografică
Greg Olson served as the Curator of Exhibits and Special Projects at the Missouri State Archives from 2000–2018 and is the author of six books, including: The Ioway in Missouri; Voodoo Priests, Noble Savages, and Ozark Gypsies: The Life of Folklorist Mary Alicia Owen; and Ioway Life: Reservation and Reform, 1837–1860.