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Educated extensively within settler society at both the University of Oklahoma and Oxford University, Mathews knowingly displayed Darwinian and Nietzschean theories, yet, as Snyder contends, Mathews always returned to his Osage-centric ideology. Editor Michael Snyder supplements these primary examples of Indigenous authorship with his own scholarly reflections on the meanings of several pieces and the expansive historical context surrounding Mathews and the broader Osage Nation in the tumultuous history of the early twentieth century. Russ Tall Chief's excellent foreword accurately summates the utility of this work as he considers " I Our Osage Hills i a companion to Michael Snyder's biography" of John Joseph Mathews, which was published in 2017 (xix). [Extracted from the article] |
