Related Resources
Related Essays Published in Folklife Center News, 1981-1985
Brady, Erika. "Bringing the Voices Home: The Omaha Pow-Wow Revisited."
Folklife Center News 8:4 (October-December 1985): 7-10.
Jabbour, Alan. "Director's Column." Folklife Center News 6:2 (April-June 1983): 2-3 (PDF, 14.8MB).
"The 153rd Annual "Original" Omaha Tribal Pow-Wow Reproduced" from Folklife Center News 6:4 (October-December 1983): 7-11 (PDF, 13MB).
Walcott, Ronald. "Francis La Flesche: American Indian Scholar."
Folklife Center News 4:1 (January 1981): 1, 10-11.
Selected Bibliography
Reproduced from Robin Ridington and Dennis Hastings, Blessing for a Long Time: The Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997.
Alexander, Hartley B.
- 1933
Francis La Flesche [obituary]. American Anthropologist n.s. 35:328-31.
Bailey, Garrick A., ed.
- 1995
The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Work of Francis La Flesche. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Barnes, R. H.
- 1984
Two Crows Denies It: A History of Controversy in Omaha Sociology. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Barreis, David A.
- 1963
Foreword to The Middle Five. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.
Conrad, Lawrence A.
- 1989
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex on the Northern Middle Mississippian Frontier: Late Prehistoric Politico-religious Systems in the Central Illinois Valley. In The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex: Artifacts and Analysis, ed. by Patricia Galloway. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Dippie, Brian W.
- 1982
The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Poliby. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas.
Dorsey, James Owen
- 1884
Omaha Sociology. BAE Third Annual Report. Washington DC: Government Printing Office. - 1890
The Cegiha Language. Contributions to North American Ethnology, vol. 6. Washington DC: U.S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rocky Mountain Region. - 1894
A Study of the Siouan Cults. BAE Eleventh Annual Report. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Fletcher, Alice Cunningham
- n.d.
Life History of Joseph La Flesche. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives 4558, Box 20, item 69, no. 1. - n.d.
The Omaha Tribe With Special Reference to the Position, Work, and Influence of Women. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives 4558, Box 19, item 65, no. 3 - 1885
Lands in Severalty to Indians: Illustrated by Experiences with the Omaha Tribe. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 33:654-55. - 1888
Glimpses of Child-life among the Omaha Tribe of Indians. Journal of American Folk-Lore 2:115-23. - 1888
The Legends of the Sacred Pole. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives 4558, Box 19, item 67, no. 9. - 1892
Hae-Thu-Ska Society of the Omaha Tribe. Journal of American Folk-Lore 5:135 44. - 1893
A Study of Omaha Indian Music. Archaeological and Ethnological Papers of the Peabody Museum 1 (5). Reprint, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1994. - 1894
Love Songs among the Omaha Indians. Memoirs of the International Congress of Anthropology, ed. by Staniland Wake, 153-57. Chicago: The Schulte Publishing Company. - n.d.
Glimpses of Omaha Life [lecture notes]. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives 4558, Box 19, item 65, no. 2. - n.d.
The Omaha Tribe with Special References to the Position, Work, and Influence of Indian Women [lecture notes]. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives 4558, Box 19, item 65, no. 3.
Fletcher, Alice C., and Francis La Flesche
- 1911
The Omaha Tribe. Washington DC: BAE Twenty-seventh Annual Report. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution. Reprint (2 vols.), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 992. - n.d.
Fletcher-La Flesche Papers. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives 4558, Box 20, item 69, no. 1.
Fortune, Reo F.
- 1932
Omaha Secret Societies. New York: Columbia University Press.
Garrett, Philip C.
- 1886
Indian Citizenship. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Lake Mohonk Conference, 8-11. In Prucha 1973, 57-65.
Gates, Merrill E.
- 1885
Land and Law as Agents in Educating Indians. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Board of Indian Commissioners, 17-19, 26-35. In Prucha 1973, 45-56.
Green, Norma Kidd
- 1969
Iron Eye's Family: The Children of Joseph La Flesche. Lincoln: Johnson Publishing Co.
Howard, James H., in collaboration with Peter Le Claire, tribal historian and other members of the tribe
- 1965
The Ponca Tribe. Washington DC: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 195.
James, Edwin
- 1823
Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, performed in the years 1819 and '20 . . . under the command of Major Stephen H. Long. In Early Western Travels, vols. 14-17, ed. by Reuben G. Thwaites. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark, Co., 1905. (Reprinted 1966, University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor.)
La Flesche, Francis
- 1895
Notes taken in a talk with Wa-ke-de. Washington DC: National Anthropological Archives. - 1963
The Middle Five: Indian Schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Lee, Dorothy Sara, and Maria La Vigna
- 1985
Omaha Indian Music: Historical Recordings from the Fletcher/La Flesche Collection. Washington DC: American Folklife Center, Library of Congress.
Liberty, Margot
- 1976
Native American "Informants": The Contribution of Francis La Flesche. In American Anthropology: The Early Years, ed. by John V. Murra. St. Paul MN: West Publishing, 99-110. - 1978
Francis La Flesche, Omaha, 1857-1932. In American Indian Intellectuals, ed. by Margot Liberty. St. Paul MN: West Publishing, 45-60.
Lurie, Nancy Oestreich
- 1966
Women in the Early American Anthropology. In Pioneers of American Anthropology: The Uses of Biography, ed. by June Helm. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 29-82.
Mark, Joan
- 1980
Four Anthropologists: An American Science in its Early Years. New York: Science History Publications. - 1982
Francis La Flesche: The American Indian as Anthropologist. Isis 73 (269): 497 510. - 1988
A Stranger in Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher and the American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Mead, Margaret
- 1932
The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe. New York: Columbia University Press. - 1965
Consequences of Racial Guilt. Introduction to 2d ed. of The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe.
Merrill, William L., Edmund J. Ladd, and T.J. Ferguson
- 1993
The Return of the Ahayu:da: Lessons for Repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution. Current Anthropology 34 (5): 523-67.
Morgan, Thomas J.
- 1892
Indian Courts. U.S. House. 52nd Congress, 2nd sess. H. Doc. 3088, 28-32. In Prucha 1973, 300-5.
Moulton, Gary E., ed.
- 1986 --
The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, vol. 10 to date. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Myers, Thomas P.
- 1992
Birth and Rebirth of the Omaha. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Museum.
Nasatir, A. P., ed.
- 1952
Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri 1785 1804, vols. 1 and 2, Reprint (vol. 2), St. Louis: St. Louis Historical Documents Foundation. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1990.
National Museum of the American Indian
- n.d.
Papers Relating to the Sacred White Buffalo Hide of the Omaha Tribe. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution.
Olson, Paul A., ed.
- 1979
The Book of the Omaha: Literature of the Omaha People. Lincoln: Nebraska Curriculum Development Center.
O'Shea, John M. and John Ludwickson
- 1992
Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Omaha Indians: The Big Village Site. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Pairns, James W., and Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr., eds.
- 1995
Ke-ma-ha: The Omaha Stories of Francis La Flesche. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Peabody Museum Papers
- n.d.
Letters between Alice C. Fletcher, Francis La Flesche, and F. W. Putnam. Cambridge MA: Peabody Museum, Harvard University.
Pratt, Richard Henry
- 1964
Battlefield and Classroom: Four Decades with the American Indian, 1876-1904. Robert M. Utley, ed. New Haven CT: Yale University Press.
Prucha, F. P.
- 1973
Americanizing the American Indians: Writings of the "Friends of the Indian" 1880 1900. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press. - 1976
American Indian Policy in Crisis: Christian Reformers and the Indian, 1865-1900. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. - 1984
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.
Ramsey, Jarold
- 1994
Francis La Flesche's "The Song of the Flying Crow" and the Limits of Ethnography. In American Indian Persistence and Resurgence, ed. by Karl Kroeber. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 181-96.
Reinhard, Karl J.
- 1994
Untitled report on Omaha skeletal remains. Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska--Lincoln.
Ridington, Robin
- n.d.
Mottled As by Shadows: A Sacred Symbol of the Omaha Tribe. Unpublished paper. - 1987
Omaha Survival: A Vanishing Indian Tribe That Would Not Vanish. American Indian Quarterly II (I): 37-51. - 1988
Images of Cosmic Union: Omaha Ceremonies of Renewal. History of Religions 28 (2): 135-50. - 1992
A Tree that Stands Burning: Reclaiming A Point of View as From the Center. In Anthropology and Literature, ed. by Paul Benson. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 48-72. - 1992
A Sacred Object as Text: Reclaiming the Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. American Indian Quarterly 17 (1): 83-99. - 1997
All the Old Spirits Have Come Back to Greet Him: Realizing the Sacred Pole of the Omaha Tribe. In Present is Past: Some Uses of Tradition in Native American Societies, ed. by Marie Mauze. Lanham MD: University Press of America.
Robinson, Victor V.
- 1982
The Hu'thuga. Macy, Nebraska: privately published cy Victor V. Robinson.
Tate, Michael L.
- 1991
The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography of the Omaha Tribe. Metuchen NJ: The Scarecrow Press.
Tibbles, Thomas Henry
- 1957
Buckskin and Blanket Days. Garden City NJ: Doubleday.
Tyler, S. Lyman
- 1973
A History of Indian Policy. Washington DC: United States Department of the Interior.
Welsch, Roger L.
- 1981
Omaha Tribal Myths and Trickster Tales. Chicago: Sage Books.
Wilson, Dorothy C.
- 1974
Bright Eyes: The Story of Susette La Flesche, an Omaha Indian. New York: McGraw Hill.