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The Osage Nation (/ ΛoΚseΙͺdΚ / OH-sayj) (Osage: ππ» ππΌπ°ππΌπ°Ν, romanized: Ni OkaškΔ , 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 ...
The Osage Indian murders were in Osage County, Oklahoma, during the 1910s–1930s. Newspapers described the increasing number of unsolved murders and deaths among young adults of the Osage Nation as the "Reign of Terror". [1][2] Most took place from 1921 to 1926. At least 60 wealthy, full-blood Osage persons were reported killed from 1918 to ...
Tribal jurisdictional areas replaced the tribal governments, [1] with the exception of the Osage Nation. As confirmed by the Osage Nation Reaffirmation Act of 2004, the Osage Nation retains mineral rights to their reservation, [2] the so-called "Underground Reservation". The United States Census has collected data on the reservations since 1990.
Journalist David Grann took a trip out to the Osage Nation in Oklahoma in 2012 after hearing about what happened in the early 1900s. Following the discovery of oil on their land, dozens of Osage ...
The ruling was a clear victory for the Osage Nation, and the company estimated that complying with the order to tear down the turbines would cost nearly $260 million.
About a quarter of Osage citizens participated in the tribal nation’s first ever census, results released this week by the northern Oklahoma tribe show.. Alice Goodfox, an Osage Nation lawmaker ...
United States v. Ramsey, 271 U.S. 467 (1926), was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the government had the authority to prosecute crimes against Native Americans (Indians) on reservation land that was still designated Indian Country by federal law. The Osage Indian Tribe held mineral rights that were worth millions of dollars.
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 ...