The Library of Congress From the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress Search by Keyword | Browse by: Music | Photographs | Spoken Word | Events | Pow-Wow Audio in Sequence Omaha Indian Music features traditional Omaha music from the 1890s and 1980s. The multiformat ethnographic field collection contains 44 wax cylinder recordings collected by Francis La Flesche and Alice Cunningham ...

Private Pierre Cruzatte was of French and Omaha Indian extraction. He enlisted with Lewis and Clark on May 16, 1804, at St. Charles (Missouri). Before enlisting, Cruzatte had formerly been a trader on the Missouri for the Chouteau fur interests. He could speak the Omaha language and was skilled in sign language, so was of valuable assistance to the captains at the Indian councils and encounters ...

Omaha Literature Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for.... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives -- they grow everywhere. Chief Big Elk, Omaha I shall vanish and be ...