An old photograph in the home of Archie Mason, an Osage Nation traditional leader. Creation Date:
Dennison is a citizen of the Osage Nation, an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies, and Co-director for the Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the University of Washington. She is author of multiple academic articles and books, includingMartin Scorsese movie
Scorsese has rightly been praised for pushing his storytelling past the white-guy-saving-the-day narrative with his important adaptation of the book to film. But the events of the film are only one part of a much richer story. What the film does not fully demonstrate is Osage persistence beyond this traumatic era. If the film is your only source of knowledge, then you would most likely assume that Osages did not survive this assault.
Governing ourselves under the 2006 Osage Constitution enabled the Osage Nation to take over the long-neglected Indian Health Service facility. In doing so, however, the Nation inherited a cumbersome bureaucracy, outdated and inappropriate equipment, and an inadequate, poorly designed bureaucracy.
Twenty-first-century nation building, with its expansive casino-based revenue streams, has allowed the creation of a robust Osage language program. Through policies of assimilation, the U.S. government had almost succeeded in severing the generational flow of the Osage language, creatingwhen there were no native speakers. Still, it could not eliminate Osages or our language, which remained a key part of our prayers, songs, and ceremonies.
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