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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Bottom third of jacket shows signs of water damage, minimal wear to the edges, no tears. Bottom of front board has some light staining, possibly due to same water damage. Otherwise, the boards are in very good condition, minimal wear, pages clean, binding very good. For centuries, the Sacred Pole stood at the center of much of Omaha religious and secular life, a symbol of tribal unity. In 1888, under pressure from the US government to abandon their beliefs and adopt christianity, the tribe relinquished the pole to Harvard's Peabody Museum, where it remained for a century until, after an extraordinary and sustained campaign by the Omahas and others, it was finally returned in 1989. The authors ingeniously adopt the conventions of Omaha oral narratives to tell the story and significance of the Sacred Pole. Portions of classic anthropological texts, Omaha narratives, and other historical and contemporary accounts are repeated 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. …

Condition: very good. no dustjacket. 8vo pp. 402. book.