Osage Nation

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 band.

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 at Fort Clark, Kansas; 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:

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 clesed 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 discoverred on their land.