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By a new constitution of 1994, the Osage voted that original allottees and their direct descendants, regardless of blood quantum, were citizen members of the Osage Nation. This constitution was overruled through court judgments. The Osage appealed to Congress for support to create their own government and membership rules.
The act further specified that elections would be held in both territories on November 6, 1906 to elect delegates for a constitutional convention. Each territory was to elect 55 delegates. The Osage Nation was allowed two delegates, giving a total of 112 delegates. [4] [b] The Oklahoma Constitutional Convention opened in Guthrie on November 20 ...
In 1878, the Osage Nation held its first democratic election for a tribal leader. Joseph Pawnee-no-pashe was elected the first "governor" of the Osage Nation and won re-election in 1880. [2] Due to various issues, the tribe reconvened in 1881 and created the 1881 Osage Nation Constitution. The 1881 constitution created the office of Principal ...
When the Osage Nation organized their first written constitution, Bigheart was the President of the National Council who drafted it and a signer of the document. When the first Osage elections were held in November 1882 Bigheart became the first elected Principal Chief of the Osage Nation.
In 1906, nearly 45 years after the Osage Nation had legally purchased and settled on a permanent reservation in north central Oklahoma Indian Territory, Osage Principal Chief James Bigheart and a ...
President Coolidge stands with four Osage Indians at a White House ceremony. The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924, (43 Stat. 253, enacted June 2, 1924) was an Act of the United States Congress that declared Indigenous persons born within the United States are US citizens.
The Osage Nation’s census is the latest example of a broader push by tribal governments to collect and store their own information, rather than rely on outside agencies or federal officials to ...
Hearing the Osage Nation language spoken by A-list actors like Robert De Niro was especially powerful, Gray said. It’s a testament to efforts of Osage language consultants and coaches, as well ...