This Is Our Land: Osage Territoriality and Borderland Violence, 1763-1803

This thesis seeks to discover the social and political factors that explain Osage violence by identifying the geographic locations of territorial expressions of violence employed by the Osage against their neighbors. Using specific primary source documentation of Osage aggressions from 1763-1803, this study lists and maps their locations in order to facilitate further analysis of patterns in the Osage deployment of violence as a form of social and political diplomacy. The finding of this thesis challenges the notion that Native Americans did not possess concepts of territory or borders, and it sheds new light on how the Osage utilized violence in response to native constructions of kinship in differing forms dependent on the kinship status they held with different neighboring settlements, both native and European.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts in History

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year

2015

Author dc:creator

• Barnett, Stephen Edouard

Contributors dc:contributor

• John Chuchiak

• Osage
• borderlands
• territoriality
• Native American violence
• cultural conflict
• Spanish Louisiana
• kinship
• social construction
• History

Statement dc:rights

• © Stephen Edouard Barnett

Repository record dc:identifier

https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/1172

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:bearworks.missouristate.edu:theses-2173