List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Cosmology and Complementary Gender RolesChapter 2 "General Happiness": Gender and the Osage EmpireChapter 3 "A Very Unfavorable Change in Their Circumstances": The Osage and US ImperialismChapter 4 "The Vexations That the American Government Inflicted": Osage Women and Men Resisting EliminationConclusion: Recovering the Feminine in the Osage Empire and BeyondNotesBibliographyIndex