Dance has always been inseparable from Omaha Indian culture, though their context may have changed over the years. The most time-honored ones, however, are based on their own cultural history and have changed very little over the centuries.

Alice Fletcher (1838-1923) was a pioneer ethnologist and leader in the movement to bring Native Americans into the mainstream of white society. She was born in Cuba in 1838. Her father died when she was only twenty months old and she appears to have experienced enormous family problems thereafter. However; she discovered anthropology and Indian affairs and by 1880 was studying archaeology under the informal mentorship of Frederick Putnam, the Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Her interest in archaeology drew her toward living Indians, and in 1881 she arranged to live with and study the Omaha Indians of Nebraska. Her time with the Omaha launched Fletcher simultaneously into her Indian policy and anthropology careers. She was fascinated by their culture, and cataloguing their music and dances was a landmark accomplishment for which she is remembered to the present day.

The second volume of the Omaha Indians Music - Traditional Dance Songs series of CDs features 41 further tracks performed by Omaha Indians and their traditional singers at the 1983 Pow-wow at Macy, Nebraska. The traditional dance tracks featured on these CDs constitute the backbone of their musical culture.

Collected in this concluding compilation are time-honored items that were featured at the Pow-wow. These include various versions of the Gourd Dance Song, Whipman's Song, Honoring Song, the Half-Breed Song and several specifically dedicated performances quaintly entitled "I don't have any friends" and "You made the other tribes cry". Also available on this 2 CD set are special songs dedicated to John and Susette Turner, Joe Harlan Jr. and the reigning Pow-wow princess.