Osage Nation



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Ancestral Homeland: Between Missouri and Arkansas River

Culture area: Southern Prairie, in Missouri area

Linguistic group: Dhegiha Siouan

Federal Status: Recognized

Bands: Pahatsi or Great Osage, Utsehta or Little Osage, and Santsukhdhi or Arkansas.

Tribal Headquarters
Osage Tribe 627 Grandview Pawhuska, OK 74056 Phone: 1.918.287.1128 Fax: 1.918.287.5562


 * Osage Nation Official Website

Population: 1984: Tribal Enrollment: 50,000.

Brief Timeline

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


 * 1673: Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet French explorers visited the Tribe along the Osage River.
 * 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 at Fort Clark, Kansas; ceded 200 square miles in southern Missouri and northern Arkansas.
 * November 1815: asked to sell
 * 1818: Land cession-Treaty
 * 1822: some of the Missouri bands moved farther west to the Neosho River
 * 1824-1851: Tribe under the jurisdiction of the Osage Agency
 * 1825: Land cession - Treaty
 * 1839: Land cession - Treaty
 * 1851-74: Tribe under the jurisdiction of the Neosho Agency
 * 1865: Land cession-Treaty
 * 1868-69: Served as scouts in the U.S. Army in Sheridan's Campaign
 * 1870: Treaty established the Osage Reservation in the northeastern part of Indian Territory (Oklahoma)
 * 1871: Osage Tribe in Kansas purchase land from Cherokee Nation creating the Osage reservation in Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
 * 1874-80: Tribe under the jurisdiction of the Osage Agency
 * 1894: Oil discovered on the reservation.In 1904 there were 155 oil-producing wells and 18 gas wells on the reservation.
 * June 28, 1906: Osage Allotment Act. " ..all persons enrolled as Osage before January 1,1906, and all born between then and July 1, 1907, would share in the division of the land and resources." When the roll was closed in 1907, it contained 1,119 names: 926 full-bloods and 1,303 mixed bloods including Indians and non-Indian adoptes.
 * 1919-1929: Tribe received money when oil was discovered on their land.

Reservations
Osage Reservation

Superintendencies
The tribe was under the following superintendencies: St. Louis, Western, Southern and Central Superintendencies.

Correspondence and Census records

Land and Property Tribally owned land: 5,943.34 acres. Allotted land: 137,437.18 acres.

Treaties


 * 1808November 10, at Fort Clark
 * 1815September 12, at Portage des Sioux
 * 1818September 25, at St. Louis
 * 1822August 31,
 * 1825 June 2, at St. Louis
 * 1825 August 10, at Council Grove with the Great and Little Osage
 * 1835 August 24, at Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Ect.,
 * 1839January 11, at Fort Gibson
 * 1865 September 29, at Canville Trading Post
 * 1865 September 13, at Fort Smith - unratified- with the Cherokee and Other Tribes in the Indian Territory

W.S. Fitzpatrick. Treaties and Laws of the Osage Nation, as passed November 26, 1890. Cedar Vale, KN. Press of the Cedar Vale Comercial, 1895.

Vital Records


 * Osage Agency, NARA M595, births and deaths 1924-1931, FHL Film: 579734

Important Web Sites

 * Osage Nation Official Website
 * Osage Nation Wikipedia