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John Joseph Matthews
At the outbreak of World War I, John Joseph Matthews joined the the U.S. Army cavalry. He then transferred to the Aviation section and became a pilot at Kelly Field. He taught night flying in the JN-4D "Jenny" aircraft.
When he returned to civilian life, Matthews graduated from the University of Oklahoma and attended Merton College, Oxford University, England. He also attended the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in Mexico in 1939-40.
Matthews became a spokesman for the Osage Indian Nation and also one of its most important writers. In 1932 he published Wah'Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man's Road. He also published Sundown, in 1934; Talking to the Moon, in 1945, and The Osages: Child of the Middle Waters, June 1961, the definitive history of the Osage people.
