A History of the Osage People

A History of the Osage People
Author: Louis F. Burns
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Total Pages: 594
Release: 2004-01-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 0817350187

Louis Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research in a broad body of literature to tell the story of the Osage people. He writes clearly and concisely, from the Osage perspective. First published in 1989 and for many years out of print, this revised edition is augmented by a new preface and maps. Because of its masterful compilation and synthesis of the known data, A History of the Osage People continues to be the best reference for information on an important American Indian people.

A History of the Osage People

A History of the Osage People
Author: Louis F. Burns
Publisher:
Total Pages: 772
Release: 1989
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Burns draws on ancestral oral traditions and research to trace 400 years of Osage culture, from the Osage perspective.

Killers of the Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0307742482

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Wager and The Lost City of Z, “one of the preeminent adventure and true-crime writers working today."—New York Magazine • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • NOW A MARTIN SCORSESE PICTURE “A shocking whodunit…What more could fans of true-crime thrillers ask?”—USA Today “A masterful work of literary journalism crafted with the urgency of a mystery.” —The Boston Globe In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann’s latest bestselling book, The Wager!

Osage Indian Customs and Myths

Osage Indian Customs and Myths
Author: Louis F. Burns
Publisher: Fire Ant Books
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2005-01-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0817351817

Siouan peoples who migrated from the Atlantic coastal region and settled in the central portion of the North American continent long before the arrival of Europeans are now known as Osage. Because the Osage did not possess a written language, their myths and cultural traditions were handed down orally through many generations. With time, only those elements deemed vital were preserved in the stories, and many of these became highly stylized. The resulting verbal recitations of the proper life of an Osage—from genesis myths to body decoration, from star songs to child-naming rituals, from war party strategies to medicinal herbs—constitute this comprehensive volume. Osage myths differ greatly from the myths of Western Civilization, most obviously in the absence of individual names. Instead, “younger brother,” “the messenger,” “Little Old Men,” or a clan name may serve as the allegorical embodiment of the central player. Individual heroic feats are also missing because group life took precedence over individual experience in Osage culture. 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 culture’s expectations but steeped in the traditions himself is able to write from an insider’s perspective.

Art of the Osage

Art of the Osage
Author: Garrick Alan Bailey
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2004
Genre: Indian art
ISBN: 9780295983875

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.

Osage

Osage
Author: Philip Stewart
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN:

Describes the history, government, religion, social structures, and contributions of the Osage Indians.

Bloodland

Bloodland
Author: Dennis McAuliffe
Publisher: Council Oak Books
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781571780836

Murder mystery, family memoir and spiritual journey combined, this story unearths family secrets and ultimately exposes a systematic murder plot.

Osage Indian Bands and Clans

Osage Indian Bands and Clans
Author: Louis F. Burns
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2001
Genre: Names, Osage
ISBN: 0806351128

The grandson of an Osage Indian, author Louis Burns wrote this primer to help persons of Osage descent trace their paternal lineage and to introduce researchers to Osage culture and the nuances of its language. The book opens with a discussion of the Osage dispersion from Missouri to Oklahoma and Kansas from about 1800 to 1870. Mr. Burns provides very helpful maps showing the concentration of the various tribal bands in each state. Next comes a summary of the richest sources of 19th-century Osage heritage, namely, Jesuit records, a great source of information concerning baptisms, marriages and interments; U.S. Government Annuity Rolls; and Osage Mission records, the best source of Osage family data. The aforementioned is followed by a list of tribal towns, as extracted from Jesuit records, and a list of Osage bands as found in the Annuity Rolls of 1878. When these sources are used in conjunction with the author's detailed listing of clans and their members, which furnishes names in both phonetic Osage and English, researchers stand a good chance of tracing their Native American heritage from about 1800 to the present. The balance of this carefully crafted volume focuses on aspects of the language, some knowledge of which is indispensable for successful research. Featured are an index to Osage names in Osage and in English, a listing of and indexes to kinship terms, a critical pronunciation key to Osage, and a conversion table for Osage Indian syllables. Mr. Burns' seminal work concludes with a bibliography of tribal literature.

Damming the Osage

Damming the Osage
Author: Leland Payton
Publisher: Lens & Pens Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2012-11-01
Genre: Bagnell Dam (Mo.)
ISBN: 9780967392585

If changed by development, the authors found the present Osage valley landscape expressive. Illustrated with hundreds of color photographs, period maps, and vintage images, this book tells the dramatic saga of human ambition pitted against natural limitations and forces beyond man's control.

The Osage and the Invisible World

The Osage and the Invisible World
Author: Francis La Flesche
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1999-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780806131320

Francis La Flesche (1857-1932), Omaha Indian and anthropologist with the Bureau of American Ethnology, published an enormous body of work on the religion of the Osage Indians, all gathered from the most knowledgeable Osage religious leaders of their day. Yet his writings have been largely overlooked because they were published piecemeal over the course of twenty-five years and never adequately collected or analyzed. 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, an initiation into a tribal priesthood. To put La Flesche’s work into perspective, Bailey offers a short biography of this prolific Native American scholar and an overview of traditional Osage religious beliefs and practices.