Tilton and Grace Entokah

Anthony Lookout is an Osage songwriter and musician from Tulsa, Oklahoma. His Osage name is Hunkathali, meaning "good eagle," from the Hunka clan. He has spent his life playing music as a multi-instrumentalist performing and recording songs and music videos and producing other local artists. Also an actor, he worked for two years with the Native American acting troupe Mahenwahdose.

"Through the riveting family saga, Tilton and Grace Entokah: An Osage Story shows the complexity of traditions and change in an evolving world. The focus on family ties, Indigenous food knowledge, pride, and courage show successful adaptations while preserving core values. Storytelling is a way of maintaining community, and this account makes the story of the Osage community richer, warmer, heartfelt, and memorable."--Denise Low, author of The Turtle's Beating Heart: One Family's Story of Lenape Survival "Tilton and Grace Entokah: An Osage Story is both engaging and authoritative. The author's voice is remarkable--he manages a storytelling manner and, best of all, he manages a tricky balance of entering the minds of historical characters, his kin, and stating what they likely thought and felt without presuming to know their opinions or deepest feelings. He is able to travel through history with these characters."--Marcia Haag, coauthor of Osage Language and Lifeways "So much of our Native American culture is now beyond our experience, having left our world with only memories for us. We live in a time and a place in which a new culture alien to the Native American has begun to influence everything. The bridge to preserve the customs of the ancient ones is so strained that we fear its collapse. Because of this, deep sadness resides in the hearts of those among us who can still hear the sounds of the native language and the voices of the ancients. It is good to remember there were those who lived and loved the days and nights of their time. Anthony Lookout brings us into those times and they are worth remembering."--Geoffrey M. Standing Bear, principal chief of the Osage Nation "This book is a collection of stories Anthony Lookout heard growing up in an Osage community embedded in white society. Readers of the stories will find them both familiar and perplexing, at times even strange. But isn't that true of all good stories?"--Peter G. Stromberg, professor of anthropology emeritus at the University of Tulsa