Speaking of "First Peoples"

Speaking of "first peoples..."

Somewhere in the catacombs is a thick college volume I picked up and (mostly) read years ago, a history of the Osages. (The county next door is Osage Co., where Frank "66" Phillips made them rich from oil leases.) The book collected oral histories.

IIRC, the book could actually somewhat trace the Osages practically from their crossing the Bering land bridge to their settling in the North-East North America. What I found especially memorable (tricky as my biomemory can be) was that when they got to the NE NAm, they encountered indigenous people who had come in from the other direction - the Eskimos or relatives, I think.

Or my flaky mind may be making the whole thing up. It was a while ago.