Blog Archives

  • Indian Music in Opera
    On this day in Osage country, The Osage Journal published an article regarding the production of an upcoming opera. 
  • Osages Only Tribe with Museum
    On this day in Osage country 1938, The Daily Journal Capital published several articles pertaining to the opening of the Osage Tribal Museum. 
  • Vitaphone and Movietone Opens at the State Theater
    Merely two years after the release of The Jazz Singer, the second successful talking picture, films with sound, or “talkies”, arrived at Pawhuska’s very own State Theater. An advertisement sponsored by Western Electric Company appeared in The Daily Journal Capital on March 10, 1929, welcoming the new technology to the theater announcing “our screen now sings and talks.” 
  • Advertisement for Constantine Theater
    On this day in Osage country, an advertisement ran in the Pawhuska Daily Journal for the Constantine Theater. Event advertisements for the Constantine Theater were a common occurrence during the early 20th century. The theater itself, however, remains to be very unique. 
  • Birth of Maria Tallchief
    On this Day in Osage country the world renowned prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, was born.