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Black Dog (Osage, Manka-Chonka, ca. 1780–1848) was a chief of the Hunkah band of the Osage Indians that lived in an area around present Baxter Springs, Kansas. In the fall of 1803, the band moved to the village of Pasuga (Big Cedar), present day Claremore, Oklahoma. His towering height was 7 feet 5 inches (2.26 m) tall, his weight 430 pounds ...
The hereditary chiefs of the Upland Forest served as the "titular chief" and was in charge of foreign relations. [1] When the last hereditary chief died in 1869, the Osage Nation was in need of a new government. The United States Osage Agent, Cyrus Beede, encouraged the Osage to form an elected form of government.
[6] [5] Two of the company commanders were Captain Black Dog II (also known as Young Black Dog, the son of Osage chief Black Dog) and Captain Ogeese (or Augustus) Captain. [7] [8] [9] The Osage became the only Native American tribe outside of the Five Civilized Tribes to join the Confederate Armed Forces in any significant number. [10]
He knew the Osage for their scouting expertise, excellent terrain knowledge, and military prowess. Custer and his soldiers took Chief Black Kettle and his peaceful band by surprise in the early morning near the Washita River on November 27, 1868. They killed Chief Black Kettle, and the ambush resulted in additional deaths on both sides.
The principal chief of the Osage Nation was in the audience at Hollywood's Dolby Theatre on March 10 when a group of Osage singers, drummers and dancers performed live during the 96th Academy Awards.
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 ...
Costume designer Jacqueline West and Osage consultant Julie O'Keefe relied on the Native American community to bring the historic clothing to life for Martin Scorsese's film.
Black dog (coin), a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain; Black Dog (Osage chief) (1780–1848), and the name of his son; Black Dog II, the son of Black Dog, a company commander of the Osage Battalion, an 1863–1865 Native American unit of the Confederate States Army