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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.
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.
The 2006 Osage Nation Constitution opened up citizenship to all descendants of the original enrollees and removed the headright requirement for voting in Osage Nations elections. [2] However, while the Osage Principal Chief, Assistant Principal Chief, and Tribal Council are elected by all Osage tribal citizens, the Osage Mineral Council is ...
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 ...
The Constitution of the State of Oklahoma is the governing document of the U.S. State of Oklahoma. ... The Osage Nation was allowed two delegates, giving a total of ...
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 U.S. citizens. While the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution defines a citizen as any persons born in the United States and subject to its laws ...
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 ...