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Today, the Osage Nation has 13,307 enrolled tribal members, with 6,747 living within the state of Oklahoma. [47] Since 2006 it has defined membership based on a person's lineal descent from a member listed on the Osage rolls at the time of the Osage Allotment Act of 1906.
The Osage Indian murders were in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States, 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.
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. These Oklahoma Tribal Statistical Areas are based on pre-statehood boundaries and may extend beyond the ...
The decision means Oklahoma can continue to prosecute tribal citizens accused of committing crimes in Osage County. Congress terminated Osage reservation in allotment era, Oklahoma court rules ...
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 ...
Inside the Osage Nation Museum in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, Grann saw a sweeping panoramic photo of members of the Osage Nation along with white settlers taken in 1924. He then noticed a panel of the ...
This is a list of federally recognized Native American Tribes in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. With its 38 federally recognized tribes, [ 1 ] Oklahoma has the third largest numbers of tribes of any state, behind Alaska and California .
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 ...