Osage Nation

Culture area: Southern Prairie, in Missouri area

Linguistic group: Dhegiha Siouan

Federal Status: Recognized

History

 * Forced from the east, by the powerful Iroquois Indians; to the Missouri area.

1755: Battle of Fort Duquesne, French aided by Indian warriors, defeated the English troops and killed, Major General Edward Braddock.

1795-1802 Auguste Chouteau, a fur trader who controlled the trade with the Osage and built Fort Carondelet in 1795.

1808: Treaty ceded 200 square miles in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.

November 1815 asked to sell

1822: some of the Missouri bands bomved farther west to the Neosho river

1825:

1919-1929 Tribe received money when oil was discoverred on their land.