Located in the Oklahoma Collection.
Look for David Grann’s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2023!
Supplementing the work of noted ethnographer Francis La Flesche who devoted most of his professional life to recording detailed descriptions of Osage rituals, Louis Burns’s unique position as a modern Osage—aware of the white ...
While the Osages were effectively arguing against termination, the two Klamath delegates that were present had a ¤rm mandate from the Klamath people to ¤ght in favor of termination. The Osage arguments convinced the junior Klamath ...
Journalist Dennis McAuliffe, Jr. opens old family wounds and ultimately exposes a widespread murder conspiracy and shameful episode in American history.
In this book, Garrick A. Bailey brings together in a clear, understandable way La Flesche’s data for two important Osage religious ceremonies--the "Songs of Wa-xo’-be," an initiation into a clan priesthood, and the Rite of the Chiefs, ...
On November 10, 1808, the American militia and the chiefs from the Little Osage and Big Osage nations celebrated. Fort Osage, built on a Missouri River bluff 250 miles west...
This volume draws together more than two centuries' worth of Osage art, tracing the patterns of Osage life and culture as they existed from contact to the present. 140 illustrations, 110 in color.
The forty-nine traditional Osage narratives presented here, collected in Oklahoma between 1910 and 1923 for the Bureau of American Ethnology, have never before been assembled in one book. What makes...
The Osage Indians were a powerful group of Native Americans who lived along the prairies and plains of present-day Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.
Richly combines many aspects of Osage life: their livelihood, social organization, and spirituality just prior to white contact.