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The Osage Nation (/ ˈoʊseɪdʒ / OH-sayj) (Osage: 𐓁𐒻 𐓂𐒼𐒰𐓇𐒼𐒰͘, romanized: Ni Okašką, lit. 'People of the Middle Waters') is a Midwestern American tribe of the Great Plains. The tribe began in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 700 B.C. along with other groups of its language family, then migrated west ...
Arthur Bonnicastle (February 20, 1877 – May 30, 1923) was an Osage politician who served as the 8th elected principal chief of the Osage Nation from 1920 to 1922. Born in the Osage Nation, Indian Territory, Bonnicastle attended the Carlisle Indian School before enlisting in the United States Army in 1900. He served in the 9th Cavalry Regiment ...
The United States Osage Agent, Cyrus Beede, encouraged the Osage to form an elected form of government. 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]
Louis Francis Burns (Osage Nation, January 2, 1920 – May 20, 2012) was a Native American historian, author, and teacher, known as a leading expert on the history, oral history and culture of the Osage Nation. [1][2] Burns wrote more than a dozen books and scholarly works on the Osage people. [1] In 2002 he was inducted into the Oklahoma ...
In 2019, Scorsese and his team met with Osage Nation Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear to discuss “Killers of the Flower Moon.” Chief Standing Bear offered up resources such as the tribe’s ...
August 11, 2013 (age 96) Fairfax, Oklahoma. George Eves Tall Chief (November 21, 1916 – August 11, 2013) was an American educator. He served as a chief in the Osage Nation . Born in Arkansas City, Kansas, Tall Chief received his bachelor's degree from University of Central Oklahoma and his masters from Pacific University.