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The Osage are descendants of cultures of Indigenous peoples who had been in North America for thousands of years. Studies of their traditions and language show that they were part of a group of Dhegihan-Siouan speaking people who lived in the Ohio River valley area, extending into present-day Kentucky.
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 ...
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The etymology of "Kentucky" or "Kentucke" is uncertain. One suggestion is that it is derived from an Iroquois name meaning "land of tomorrow". [1] According to Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia, "Various authors have offered a number of opinions concerning the word's meaning: the Iroquois word kentake meaning 'meadow land', the Wyandotte (or perhaps Cherokee or Iroquois ...
A few Texas-based actors who had roles in the film not only agree with Grann that this particular time in Osage history was traumatic and agonizing to members of the tribe, but they are also ...
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 Treaty of Fort Clark is signed, in which the Osage Nation cedes all of its territory east of Fort Clark and north of the Arkansas River to the United States. [26] 1809: Nov 9: Welsh-Canadian explorer David Thompson establishes Saleesh House as a fur-trading post of the North West Company in what is now Montana.