Osage Life and Legends

The Osage who were the principal native inhabitants of the Ozarks were often described as the most handsome of the Native Amerians, tall, proud and humble.They were once one of the most powerful and well-organized North American tribes. Their traditions and world views were handed down verbally for generations in a series of poems called wi-gi-es. The poems have been recorded and form a brief history of the tribe. Rituals were at the heart of Osage Life. Rituals were faithfully obsrved such as rising in the morning to peparing to go into battle.

Robert M. Liebert, besides being a writer, has an herb business, teaches classes on herbs and their usage, and farms in a rural area with his wife and family. His early interest in natural history and Native American culture led to contacts with Indian peoples and broading his interest and knowledge in land use, primitive agriculture, ethno botany, and Native American ways.