Cultural Change in Osage & Missouri Indian Life, 1675-1835
FAIN: RS-20296-82
Mizzou (Columbia, MO 65211-3020)
Carl H. Chapman (Project Director: October 1981 to October 1990)
To support a study of the cultural changes in the Missouri and Osage Indian tribes during the period 1675-1825 when contacts with Euro-Americans increased due to the hide and fur trade. The study combines the disciplines of archeology, ethnology, paleoethnobiology, and history.