Books on the OSAGE

In-Lon-Schka: the Osage Ceremonial Dance by Alice Callahan,1990, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, ISBN 0-8061-2486-5

A Dictionary of the Osage Language by Francis LaFlesche, 1975, Smithsonian, Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 109, Publ. by Indian Tribal Series, 2937 West Indian School, Phoenix, AZ

The Osage People by David Baird, 1972, Indian Tribal Series, Phoenix, AZ

Ancient Osage Religion, Smithsonian, Bureau of American Ethnology, 1936, study of the old Osage religious ceremonies by Omaha ethnologist Francis LaFlesche.

Books by John Joseph Mathews:
The Osages, Children of the Middle Waters, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1961,
ISBN: 0-8061-0498-8
Wah’Kon-Tah: The Osage on the White Man’s Road, Norman, 1932
Sundown, New York, 1935
Talking to the Moon, Chicago, 1945

Books by Louis F. Burns:
A History of the Osage People, Univ. of Alabama Press, 2004, ISBN: 0-8173-1319-2
Osage Bands and Clans, Ciga Press, Fallbrook, Ca., 1984, ISBN: 0-942574-04-4
Osage Indian Customs and Myths, Ciga Press, Fallbrook, Ca., 1984, ISBN: 0-942574-06-0

The Osage and the Invisible World: from the Works of Francis LaFlesche, ed by Garrick Bailey, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1995, ISBN: 0-8061-3132-2

The Osage, by Terry Wilson, Chelsea House Publishers, 1988, ISBN: 1-55546-722-9

Osage Grammar, by Carolyn Quintero, Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2004,
ISBN: 0-8032-3803-7

West Moon – East Moon: An Ethnohistory of the Peyote Religion Among the Osage
Indians by Danile C Swan, degree dissertation publ. in 1992 by UMI Dissertation
Information Service, 300 Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48106.

A Pipe for February by Charles H. Redcorn, Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2002, orders:
www.oupress.com or 800-627-7377.

La Flesche, Francis
1921 The Rite of the Chiefs; Sayings of the Ancient Men.
Bureau of American Ethnology Thirty-sixth Annual Report.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

1925 The Osage Tribe, Rite of Vigil. Bureau of American
Ethnology Thirty-ninth Annual Report. Smithsonian
Institution. Washington, DC.

1928 The Osage Tribe: Two Versions of the Child-
Naming Rite. Bureau of American Ethnology Forty Third
Annual Report. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

1930 The Osage Tribe, Rite of the Wa-Xo-Be. Bureau of
American Ethnology Forty-fifth Annual Report.
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.

1939 War Ceremony of the Osage. Bureau of American
Ethnology Bulletin 101. Smithsonian Institution,
Washington, DC.