Omaha Indian Music

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.


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