Article analyzes John Joseph Mathews' first book, Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road (1932), to demonstrate its historical and biographical value as well as to show its relevance to understanding the Quaker influence that still exists in the Osage community.
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Article analyzes John Joseph Mathews' first book, Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road (1932), to demonstrate its historical and biographical value as well as to show its relevance to understanding the Quaker influence that still exists in the Osage community.
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Abstract: John Joseph Mathews described the relationship between Quaker Indian agents, like Laban J. Miles, and Osage tribal members in Wah'Kon-Tah, his first book. Michael Snyder analyzes this text to demonstrate its historical and biographical value as well as to show its relevance to understanding the Quaker influence that still exists in the Osage community.
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Snyder, Michael.Friends of the Osages: John Joseph Mathews's Wah'Kon-Tah and Osage-Quaker Cross-Cultural Collaboration,
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Winter 2010;
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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