Osage Life & Legends: Earth People/Sky People

This book richly combines many aspects of Osage life; their livelihood, social organization, and spirituality just prior to white contact.  Oral traditions of the Osage, a people that once formed one of the most powerful and influential tribes in North America, were handed down through the generations by a series of prose-poems they called 'wi-gi-es', most of which have never been seen in anthologies of Native American poetry and legends.   Few other tribes were as well-organized, and unique as the Tall  Ones, the Osage; yet little is known or has been previously written of their way of life in the homeland they loved, the Ozarks and tall-grass prairie regions.