Looking for more reading on the Osage and Missouria tribes? Parts 2 and 3 of our special series are forthcoming in September and October, but in the mean time we highly recommend this selection of books that cover the subject.

• Louis F. Burns, A History of the Osage People
• Carl H. and Eleanor F. Chapman, Indians and Archaeology of Missouri
• Michael Dickey, The People of the River’s Mouth: In Search of the Missouria Indians
• Gilbert C. Din and A.P. Nasatir, The Imperial Osages: Spanish-Indian Diplomacy in the Mississippi Valley
• Grant Foreman, Indians and Pioneers: The Story of the American Southwest Before 1830
• John Joseph Mathews, The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters
• A.P. Nasatir, ed., Before Lewis and Clark: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri 1785-1804, Vol. I
• Michael J. O’Brien and W. Raymond Wood, The Prehistory of Missouri
• Richard F. Townsend and Robert V. Sharp, eds., Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand
• Kristie C. Wolferman, The Osage in Missouri