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# Anthony Lookout's book on the Osage Tilton and Grace Entoka from Nebraska
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/rasskazhu-ob-interesnoi-knige/
- Published: 2026-10-28T18:10:22.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-28T18:30:14.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: The East, Archive, Faith, Books, Ethnography

Let me tell you about an interesting book. The University of Nebraska Press has published *Tilton and Grace Entoka: An Osage Story* by the writer Anthony Lookout. The Osage are one of the indigenous peoples of North America; the book is devoted to Native storytellers and appears in the series "Lives of American Indians".

The action begins at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when the Osage were living through a sharp break in their way of life. A little more than a hundred years ago the American authorities forced them to move from communal ownership of land to life on individual plots, which were carved out for each member of the tribe. The heroine of the book, Pashehe, known in English as Grace, lives in the Osage village of Gray Horse and comes from a traditional family. Her parents were born before the Osage were driven out of Kansas in 1865 and resettled in 1872 in Indian Territory, that is, on the lands of present-day Oklahoma. Grace falls in love twice, and her love stories span the period from the late 1880s to the 1940s. The events unfold against the backdrop of the summer ceremonial Inlonshka dances and the gatherings of the Osage congregation of the Native American Church, which combines Christian and Indian religious rites.

The Osage oral tradition is built on different laws from Western literature and rests above all on collective memory. The author learned Grace's story from his great-grandfather, the Osage chief Fred Lookout. It was then kept by the chief's grandson, after him by the author himself, and now by his daughter. Work on the book began when Lookout found old reel-to-reel tapes of 1965–1971 with stories told by Osage elders and relatives. These recordings prompted him to undertake archival research and new interviews with the elders.