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The town of Macy, Nebraska, lies along the Missouri River, in a trough probably formed by an erstwhile creek. It is surrounded by corn and soy fields, as most of Nebraska is, and it is really not much of a place. Three or four brick government buildings adorn the town square. It is significant that two of these are septagonal - symbolic of the seven tribes of the Omaha Indians. It also features a community college that uses the Omaha language as a medium. The town also has a Tribal Office adjacent to a baseball diamond - this diamond leads to the grounds on which the 1983 Pow-wow of the Omaha Indians was held. The event was well publicized with television coverage, and the songs and dances it featured were recorded for posterity. From interviews taken with the participants later on, a feeling that much had been achieved to introduce these obscure tribes to the modern world was evident. This Pow-wow helped them to regain a sense of identity in a world that has largely left them behind and ignored their culture. The Pow-wow is an annual event in Omaha - a sort of cultural get-together in which contacts, memories and culture are revived. The 1983 Pow-wow was special because the Omaha Indians were ceremoniously given back a collection of ancient wax cylinder recordings of their songs in accordance with the federal Cylinder Project, a heritage preservation undertaking. The songs featured on these recordings were reproduced in the Pow-wow and continue to be sung in the Omaha Indians? annual meets to the present day. The ten tracks included on the Omaha Indian Music - Omaha Pow-wow Songs CD are a representation of this event and make for absolutely engrossing listening - mainly because they are audible cultural history that would have been lost forever had Alice Fletcher and Francis La Flesche not taken their timely initiative to preserve it.