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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 ...
George Tinker. George E. "Tink" Tinker is an American Indian scholar of the Osage Nation who taught for more than three decades at the Iliff School of Theology, a United Methodist Church theological school, where he focused his scholarship on the decolonization of American Indian Peoples. The Tinker family name is deeply embedded among the Osage.
Francis La Flesche (Omaha, 1857–1932) was the first professional Native American ethnologist; he worked with the Smithsonian Institution. He specialized in Omaha and Osage cultures. Working closely as a translator and researcher with the anthropologist Alice C. Fletcher, La Flesche wrote several articles and a book on the Omaha, plus more ...
Big moon peyotism was introduced as a variant of the Peyote religion in the 1880s that incorporated Christian, Caddo, and Delaware religious symbols with the consumption of peyote intertwined from Caddo and Delaware rituals. [1] The plant itself, peyote, had been used for spiritual practice by the Mescalero Apache in the 1880, and their use of ...
William King Hale (December 24, 1874 – August 15, 1962) was an American political and crime boss in Osage County, Oklahoma, who was responsible for the most infamous of the Osage Indian murders. He made a fortune through cattle ranching, contract killings, and insurance fraud before his arrest and conviction for murder.
While “Killers of the Flower Moon” isn’t from Mollie Burkhart’s perspective, Osage Nation consultants provided input on how the Osage language, wardrobe and customs are portrayed in the ...
The Cutthroat Gap massacre occurred in 1833, "The Year the Stars Fell" in Oklahoma. [1] A group of Osage warriors charged into a Kiowa camp and brutally slaughtered the women, children and elderly there. Most of the warriors of this group of Kiowas, headed by Chief A'date ([ΙΜΛtΙΜΛtè]) or "Islandman" had left to raid a band of Utes or ...
A companion book-Peyote Religious Art: Symbols of Faith and Belief- was published by the University Press of Mississippi. [ 5 ] In addition to numerous museum exhibitions that he has curated at the institutions with which he has been affiliated, Swan was a core contributor to "The Art of the Osage," a major 2004 exhibition of the Saint Louis ...