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.
History
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 bomved farther west to the Neosho river
1825: Land cession - Treaty
1839: Land cession - Treaty
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)
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 adoptees.
1919-1929: Tribe received money when oil was discovered on their land.
Brief History
Reservations
Additional References to the History of the Tribe
Tribal Headquarters
Osage Tribe
627 Grandview
Pawhuska, OK 74056
Phone: 918.287.1128
Fax: 918.287.5562
Records
Agency Records
Correspondence and Census records
| Tribe | Agency | Location of Original Records |
Pre-1880 Correspondence M234 RG 75 Roll 962 Roll Number |
FHL Film Number |
Post 1885 Census M595 RG 75 Roll 693 Roll Number |
FHL Film Number |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osage | Osage Agency, 1824-51, 1874-1961 | Washington D.C. and Fort Worth | Rolls 631-41 | - | Rolls 317-28, 530-37, 631-41 | 579727-579-738 |
| Osage | Neosho Agency, 1851-74 | Washington D.C. | Rolls 530-37 | - | - | - |
Treaties
- 1808 November 10, at Fort Clark
- 1815 September 12, at Portage des Sioux
- 1818 September 25, at St. Louis
- 1822 August 31,
- 1825: 1825
- 1825: with the Great and Little Osage http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/osa0246.htm
- 1835 August 24, at Camp Holmes with the Comanche, Ect.,
- 1839: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/osa0525.htm
- 1865: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/osa0878.htm
- 1865: with the Cherokee and Other Tribes in the Indian Territory http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/Vol2/treaties/che1050.htm
Vital Records
- Osage Agency, M595, births and deaths 1924-1931, FHL Film: 579734
Important Web Sites
- Osage Nation Official Website
- Osage Nation Wikipedia
References
Bibliography
- Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives; Record Group 75, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
- Hodge, Frederick Webb. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 1906 Available online.
- Klein, Barry T., ed. Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian. Nyack, New York: Todd Publications, 2009. 10th ed. WorldCat 317923332; FHL book 970.1 R259e.
- Malinowski, Sharon and Sheets, Anna, eds. The Gale Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes. Detroit: Gale Publishing, 1998. 4 volumes. Includes: Lists of Federally Recognized Tribes for U.S., Alaska, and Canada – pp. 513-529 Alphabetical Listing of Tribes, with reference to volume and page in this series Map of “Historic Locations of U.S. Native Groups” Map of “Historic Locations of Canadian Native Groups” Map of “Historic Locations of Mexican, Hawaiian and Caribbean Native Groups” Maps of “State and Federally Recognized U.S. Indian Reservations. WorldCat 37475188; FHL book 970.1 G131g.
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- Vol. 2 -- Great Basin, Southwest, Middle America
- Vol. 3 -- Arctic, Subarctic, Great Plains, Plateau
- Vol. 4 -- California, Pacific Northwest, Pacific Islands
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- Volume 1 -- Not yet published
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- Volume 3 -- Environment, Origins, and Population (pub. 2006) -- WorldCat 255572371
- Volume 4 -- History of Indian-White Relations (pub. 1988) -- WorldCat 19331914; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.4.
- Volume 5 -- Arctic (pub. 1984) -- WorldCat 299653808; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.5.
- Volume 6 -- Subarctic (pub. 1981) -- WorldCat 247493742; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.6.
- Volume 7 -- Northwest Coast (pub. 1990) -- WorldCat 247493311
- Volume 8 -- California (pub. 1978) -- WorldCat 13240086; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.8.
- Volume 9 -- Southwest (pub. 1979) -- WorldCat 26140053; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.9.
- Volume 10 -- Southwest (pub. 1983) -- WorldCat 301504096; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.10.
- Volume 11 -- Great Basin (pub. 1986) -- WorldCat 256516416; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.11.
- Volume 12 -- Plateau (pub. 1998) -- WorldCat 39401371; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.12.
- Volume 13 -- Plains, 2 vols. (pub. 2001) -- WorldCat 48209643
- Volume 14 -- Southeast (pub. 2004) -- WorldCat 254277176
- Volume 15 -- Northwest (pub. 1978) -- WorldCat 356517503; FHL book 970.1 H191h v.15.
- Volume 16 -- Not yet published
- Volume 17 -- Languages (pub. 1996) -- WorldCat 43957746
- Volume 18 -- Not yet published
- Volume 19 -- Not yet published
- Volume 20 -- Not yet published
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