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The Osage called the Europeans I'n-Shta-Heh (Heavy Eyebrows) because of their facial hair. [14] As experienced warriors, the Osage allied with the French, with whom they traded, against the Illiniwek during the early 18th century. The first half of the 1720s was a time of more interaction between the Osage and French colonizers.
The United States Osage Agent, Cyrus Beede, encouraged the Osage to form an elected form of government. 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]
The Osage Nation, a Native American tribe in the United States, is the source of most other terms containing the word "osage". Osage can also refer to: Osage language , a Dhegihan language traditionally spoken by the Osage Nation
In 1875 he became principal chief of the Osage Nation. By 1881 Bigheart was the leader of the "Full Bloods", or Non-Progressives Party, of the Osage Nation. [1] [b] Bigheart is credited with leading his faction to delay the allotment of the Osage Nation reservation by about ten years. When the Osage Nation organized their first written ...
The American Revolution includes political, social, and military aspects. The revolutionary era is generally considered to have begun with the passage of the Stamp Act in 1765 and ended with the ratification of the United States Bill of Rights in 1791. The military phase of the revolution, the American Revolutionary War, lasted
Osage Nation’s Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear on how Osage storytelling connects us with our past and our present.
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The Osage were split into two major groups, the Great Osage and the Little Osage, and then into separate semi-autonomous bands. [1] Prior to the war the two major American influences upon the Osage were the Jesuit mission in Neosho County , whose members generally favored the Union, and the prominent merchant John Allen Mathews , who favored ...