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.

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.

Tribal Headquarters
Osage Tribe 627 Grandview Pawhuska, OK 74056 Phone: 918.287.1128 Fax: 918.287.5562

Records
Agency Records

Correspondence and Census records

Vital Records


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

Important Web Sites

 * Osage Nation Official Website
 * Osage Nation Wikipedia