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The Oklahoma Legislature abolished the State Mining Board and replaced it with the Oklahoma Mining Commission in 1985. The Commission is a nine-member board that serves as the governing body of the Department and is responsible for approving the Department's budget, establishing policy and appointing the Director of the Department.
Osage headrights are property rights, protected under federal law, that entitle their owner to receive a quarterly payment from the Osage Mineral Estate. They also entitle their Osage owners to vote for members of the Osage Mineral Council. [1] Historically, Osage headrights were linked to citizenship and voting in the Osage Nation. In 2006, a ...
A map of the Oklahoma and Indian territories, circa 1890s, created using Census Bureau data. The Osage were one of the few American Indian nations to buy their own reservation. As a result, they retained more rights to the land and sovereignty. They retained mineral rights on their lands. [40]
In preparation for Oklahoma's admission to the union on an "equal footing with the original states" [6] by 1907, through a series of acts, including the Oklahoma Organic Act and the Oklahoma Enabling Act, Congress enacted a number of often contradictory statutes that often appeared as an attempt to unilaterally dissolve all sovereign tribal governments and reservations within the state of ...
When mineral rights have been severed from the surface rights (or property rights), it is referred to as a "split estate." In a split estate, the owner of the mineral rights has the right to develop those minerals, regardless of who owns the surface rights. This is because in United States law, mineral rights trump surface rights. [5]
The tribe had retained mineral rights to its reservation. [6] Each tribal member had what were known as headrights to the mineral rights on communal land. [7] [8] When valuable oil was found on their land and leases were sold for oil production, each member with headrights was paid a share of the lucrative annual royalties for leases by oil ...
It became a semi-autonomous district by the Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906, and Osage County at the time of Oklahoma Statehood in 1907. [3] At that time, there were 2,229 registered Osage members. [4] As owners, the Osage negotiated the retention of the communal mineral rights to their reservation lands.
The Million Dollar Elm was an elm tree in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. [1] The tree was the site of auctions for oil leases for Osage County, since mineral rights for the county are owned by the Osage Nation. [2] The first auction was held in November 1912 with Colonel Ellsworth Walters serving as the official auctioneer. [1]