Omaha Indian Resources in the Library
NONFICTION - REGULAR CIRCULATION
OMA 299.74 RID
Ridington, Robin. Blessing for a long time : the sacred pole of
the Omaha Tribe. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
c1997.
OMA 306.8 BAR
Barnes, R. H. Two Crows denies it : A history of controversy in
Omaha Sociology. University of Nebraska Press : Lincoln,
Nebraska, 1984.
OMA 398.2 BAI
Bailey, Susan et al. Ahoe! University of Nebraska Lincoln,
1969. Stories and legends: The Dog, The Owl, Sacred Pole
Legend, The Parting of the Omaha and the Quapaw, Meeting
with the White Men, The Maize Legend, Chief Logan
Fontenelle, Joseph LaFlesche.
OMA 813.52 LAF
La Flesche, Francis, d. 1932. Ke-ma-ha : the Omaha stories of
Francis La Flesche. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,
c1995.
OMA 970.4 HUB
Hubbard-Brown, Janet. Native American Leaders. Chelsea House
Publishers : 1998. Profiles twenty-five Native American
leaders, mostly from the nineteenth century, including Big
Elk (Omaha), Geronimo (Apache), Joseph (Nez Perce), Red
CLoud (Oglala Sioux), and White Swan (Crow).
OMA 92 LAF
Brown, Marion Marsh. Homeward the arrow's flight. Nashville :
Abingdon, c1980. A biography of the young Omaha Indian
woman who overcame sexual and cultural prejudices to become
a physician.
OMA 92 LAF
Ferris, Jeri. Native American doctor : the story of Susan
LaFlesche Picotte. Minneapolis : Carolrhoda, c1991. A
biography of the young Omaha Indian woman who became the
first Native American woman to graduate from medical school.
OMA 398.2 WEL
Welsch, Roger L. Omaha tribal myths and trickster tales.
Chicago : Sage Books, c1981. Collects more than seventy
tribal stories of the Omaha Indians, many of them about
Trickster in his guises of Rabbit, Ictinike, and Coyote.
OMA 641.5 OMA
Common Omaha cooking. UNL Native Language Students. Gives
recipes in both Omaha and English for Cowboy Bread,
Frybread, Hamburger Gravy, Hamburger Mix, and Cabbage and
Hamburger Mix. Illustrated by students from Omaha Nation
Public School.
OMA 781.62 FLE
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923. A study of
Omaha Indian music. New York, : Kraus Reprint Corp., 1967.
OMA 811 LOV
Love, Frank V. Love by love. 1981. Nebraska Indian Press Macy,
Nebraska. A collection of writings from the poems, diaries,
and essays of Frank V. Love, an Omaha-Iowa Indian.
OMA 970 LAF
La Flesche, Francis, d. 1932. The Middle Five : Indian
schoolboys of the Omaha Tribe. Lincoln : University of
Nebraska Press, [1978] c1963. An informal account of the
author's experience as an Omaha child in a mission school of
the mid-nineteenth century, and that of his school mates.
OMA 973 PAT
Patrick, Pearl Haley. O'po of the Omaha. Nebraska Curriculum
Development Center : Caxton Printers, 1957. The story of
four years in the life of O'po, an Indian boy of the Omaha
tribe, in the 1950's; of how he worked and played building a
lodge, rules, discomfort, and the summer hunt.
OMA 978.2 BOU
Boughter, Judith A., 1940-. Betraying the Omaha Nation,
1790-1916. Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, c1998.
OMA 978.2 OSH
O'Shea, John M. Archaeology and ethnohistory of the Omaha
Indians : the Big Village site. Lincoln, NE : University of
Nebraska Press in cooperation with the American Indian
Studies Research Institute, Indiana University, c1992.
REFERENCE / PROFESSIONAL
OMA R 970.3 FLE
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923. The Omaha
tribe Vol I. Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press,
[1972].
OMA PRO 001
My generation. Irving, Tex. : American Association of Boomers,.
Single article entitled: "A Sacred Quest: One Man's Struggle
to Save His Tribe's Heritage". Story about Dennis Hastings,
local Macy resident.
OMA PRO 001
National Endowment for the Humanities. Humanities. Washington,
: National Endowment for the Humanities. The Lewis and
Clark Bicentennial edition with five articles. Also contains
two articles on Frontiers of Science and two articles on
Sacred Relics. One article is "Ancestral Bones" in which
archaeological evidence provides a portrait of the
fur-trading Omaha.
OMA PRO 400 AWA
Awakuni-Swetland, Mark Joseph. I speak Omaha -- I am Omaha.
2003,
Norman, Oklahoma. A dissertation submitted to the graduate
faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the
degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Oklahoma Graduate School,
Norman, Oklahoma.
OMA PRO 581 ETH
Applied Science and Math II Students Umonhon Nation Public School,
2000-2001. Ethnobotanical Report: Plants of the Omaha
Indian Reservation. Omaha Nation Public School. A look at
the plants found on the Omaha Indian Reservation, with
Native American Names, description, location and habitat, as
well as uses. Includes drawings by students. 1st edition
created by class of 200-2001. 2nd edition created by class
of 2001-2002. 3rd edition created by 2002-2003 class.
OMA PRO 811 LOV
Love, Frank V. Up river: Good medicine poems. Nebraska Indian
Press : Macy, Nebraska, 1973. A collection of poetry
written by an Omaha Iowa Indian.
OMA PRO 970 FLE
Fletcher, Alice C. A study from the Omaha tribe: The import of
the totem. Washington Government Printing Office : 1898.
Removed from the Annual Report of the Smithsonian
Insdtitution for 1897. Pages 577-586. Three plates, one
drawing, and two black and white photos. Describes the
personal totem, the social totem and the significance to the
tribe.
OMA PRO 970 FOR
Fortune, Reo, 1903-. Omaha secret societies,. New York, : AMS
Press, [1932].
OMA PRO 973 FAI
Fairbairn, Lawrence. The way it was. 1st. Hemet Printing :
Self-Printed and bound, 1977. Deals with experiences gained
by the author while serving as a teacher with the Bureau of
Indian Affairs, Indian Field Service, under the United
States Department of the Interior. The author's second
assignment took place on the Omaha Indian Reservation in
Macy, NE. He taught at the Macy Day School.
OMA PRO 973 OMA
Omaha Tribal Indian Child Welfare. Omaha Tribal Indian Child
Welfare Office, no date. A booklet compiled by the Omaha
Tribal Indian Child Welfare Office of the express purpose of
assisting non-tribal parents who have adopted children
enrolled as Omaha Tribal members in learning together the
rich heritage and enduring presence of the Omaha people. It
is designed to be a learning tool for both parents and
children.
OMA PRO E PAR
Parker, Brian. Carlos in the print shop = Carlos wabaxu gaseke
ti kidi. Macy Public Schools Print Shop. The third book in
the Omaha Language series produced under Title IV, Part A,
The Indian Education Act, for the Macy Schools. Omaha tribal
members who contributed to the translation include: Clifford
Wolfe, Bertha Wolfe, Mary Clay, and Collidge Stabler.
Bernard Morris, Jr., helped with the preparation.
OMA R 423
Swetland, Mark J. Umonhon iye of Elizabeth Stabler: with
an Omaha to English lexicon.
OMA R 016 TAT
Tate, Michael L. The Upstream people: an annotated research
biblography of the Omaha Tribe. 1991.
OMA R 970.3 FLE
Fletcher, Alice C. (Alice Cunningham), 1838-1923. The Omaha
tribe Volume II. Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press,
[1972].
VIDEO
OMA VID AGA
Against the current: Mother Earth, tradition and the Omaha
People.
OMA VID MAC
Macy Music KMEG News. The news program that highlights the
Umonhon Nation School band and the piece composed by Sandra
Fox specifically for the tribe.
OMA VID MIS
Mission in Macy. Film that was later video taped with narration.
OMA VID NAT
Native Americans. San Dimas, Calif. : Raleigh, NC : Peter
Matulavich Productions ; Rainbow Educational Media, c1993.
Edward Jacob Wilson, Larry Swalley, Patty Swallow...[et
al.]. Explores the history, culture, and legacy of Native
Americans of the Plains, including the Blackfeet, Crow,
Cheyenne, Omaha, Kiowa, Comanche, and Sioux. Depicts a day
in the life of typical Sioux family. Features dramatic
re-enactments, archival photos, and on-location footage.
OMA VID OMA
Omaha Song. Nebraska Public Television, 2004. Highlights the
Umonhon Nation School band and the piece composed by Sandra
Fox specifically for the tribe. Sandra Fox is interviewed.
OMA VID PHO #1
Photographic collection on videotape: Native Americans Tape #1.
Nebraska State Historical Society.
OMA VID PHO #2
Photographic collection on videotape: Native Americans Tape #2.
Nebraska State Historical Society.
OMA VID PHO #3
Photographic collection on videotape: Native Americans Tape #3.
Nebraska State Historical Society.
OMA VID PHO #4
Photographic collection on videotape: Native Americans Tape #4.
Nebraska State Historical Society.
OMA VID PLA
The Plains Indian tribe dancers. Home video of the Plans Indian
Tribe Dancers and the Hoop Dance performed in Omaha,
Nebraska November 18, 1996. The tribes represented are:
Omaha, Winnebago, Santee Sioux, and Ponca.
OMA VID RET
Return of the sacred pole. Nebraska Educational Television :
1990. Focuses on the return of perhaps the Omaha Indian
Tribe's most important religious symbols following more than
100 years as a museum artifact at the Peabody Museum of
Harvard University. Narrated by folklorist Roger Welsch.
OMA VID WE#1
We Are One: Morning comes. 1986. Describes the importance of
different customs and traditions for the people of the Omaha
tribe.
OMA VID WE#2
We Are One: Learning from others. 1986. Describes the
importance of different customs and traditions for people of
the Omaha tribe.
OMA VID WE#4
We Are One: Turning of the child. 1986. Describes the
importance of different customs and traditions for people of
the Omaha tribe.
OMA VID WE#5
We Are One: Storytelling. 1986. Describes the importance of
different customs and traditions for people of the Omaha
tribe.
OMA VID WE#6
We Are One: Becoming a warrior. 1986. Describes the importance
of different customs and traditions for people of the Omaha
tribe.
OMA VID WE#7
We Are One: Preparing for a summer hunt. 1986. Describes the
importance of different customs and traditions for people of
the Omaha tribe.
OMA VID WE#8
We Are One: The dare. 1986. Describes the importance of
different customs and traditions for people of the Omaha
tribe.
OMA VID WE#9
We Are One: The buffalo hunt. 1986. Describes the importance of
different customs and traditions for people of the Omaha
tribe.
Omaha Hands-on Kit
From the University of Nebraska State Museum, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A large kit filled with dozens of artifacts and hands-on examples of real items from the Omaha culture.
Lewis & Clark Encounter flags,
Great Wolf Lodge, Kansas City, KS
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