death_place death_date birth_place birth_date spouse article_title name occupation
pawhuska , oklahoma may 20 , 2012 elgin , kansas january 2 , 1920 ruth blake -lrb- 1945-2006 -rrb- louis f. burns
 louis f. burns historian , author
louis f. burns

louis francis burns -lrb- january 2 , 1920 -- may 20 , 2012 -rrb- -lrb- osage -rrb- was an american historian , author , and teacher , a leading expert on the history , mythology and culture of the osage nation .
burns wrote more than a dozen books and scholarly works on the osage people .
in 2002 he was inducted into the oklahoma historians hall of fame .
