"The Osage are an American Indian tribe whose ancestral domain included much of Oklahoma. A legend indicates the Osage and the other Dhegiha Sioux (Kaw, Omaha, Ponca, and Quapaw) originated at Indian Knoll near the mouth of the Green River in Kentucky. However, in paleolithic times they ranged from the fork of the Ohio River to the Mississippi and beyond. Osage genesis myths and archaeological evidence tend to support the legend." - https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS001
"I am proud to be one-quarter Osage, but as 'Two Standards' suggests I did not grow up in a Native American community... As a writer I aspire to learn more about my Osage heritage while I continue to open my eyes, ears, heart, and mind by reading and hearing the work of Native American writers whom I greatly admire." - Elise Paschen
Poem - Two Standards: At. a Native Writers' Conference in Norman, Oklahoma (page 85)