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3 unusual facts about Osage


John Merlin Powis Smith

While attending college in Iowa, Smith also taught introductory Greek, and after earning his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1893, taught Greek at Cedar Valley Seminary in Osage, Iowa.

Osage, Minnesota

Osage is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Osage Township, Becker County, Minnesota, United States.

University of Sioux Falls

Between 1929 and 1931, Sioux Falls College acquired four Baptist schools that had ceased to operate: Des Moines University, Des Moines, Iowa; Grand Island College, Grand Island, Nebraska; Cedar Valley Seminary, Osage, Iowa; and Parker College, Winnebago, Minnesota.


Brunswick, Missouri

At the time of European contact, historical tribes in the area included the Missouri, Osage, Kaw, Otoe and others.

Claremore, Oklahoma

The Osage village was destroyed in 1817, during the Battle of Osage Mound.

Daniel C. Swan

He completed his doctorate in anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in 1990 with a dissertation that documented the history of the Native American Church among the Osage people.

Fort Orleans

He smoked a peace pipe to establish peace between the Padouca and the Missouri, Osage, Iowa, Pawnee, Oto, Kaw, and Omaha.

Fort Osage

1: Fort Bellefontaine U.S. headquarters; 2: Fort Osage, abandoned 1813; 3: Fort Madison, defeated 1813; 4: Fort Shelby, defeated 1814; 5: Battle of Rock Island Rapids, July 1814 and the Battle of Credit Island, Sept. 1814; 6: Fort Johnson, abandoned 1814; 7: Fort Cap au Gris and the Battle of the Sink Hole, May 1815.

Francis La Flesche

Contemporary Osage tribal members have compared the impact of hearing the recordings of their traditional rituals to that of Western scholars reading the newly discovered Dead Sea Scrolls.

Fred S. Clinton

Young Fred was educated in the national schools of the Creek Nation then went off to study at St. Francis Institute in Osage, Kansas, Drury College (now Drury University) (Springfield, Missouri), Gem City Business College (Quincy, Illinois), and Young Harris College in Georgia.

History of Pryor Creek

Captain Nathaniel Hale Pryor, who was married to an Osage woman and served as an agent to the Osage people, was among those settling northeastern Oklahoma.

Honey War

In the Treaty of Fort Clark, the Osage had ceded all land east of Fort Clark near Sibley, Missouri.

John D. Henderson

In Colorado, Henderson bought a chain of gold mines; on a visit to Colorado he and some eighteen others were slaughtered by a group of Osage Indians for crossing the Osage territory with loaded weapons.

John Joseph Mathews

During the 1930s and the Great Depression, Mathews was politically active within the Osage Nation.

As the people took advantage of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act, Mathews helped the Osage Nation restore its self-government.

Neosho-class monitor

As the water receded Osage began to hog at the ends because only her middle was supported by the sand.

Owen Park, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Though the Osage were to vacate their land in Oklahoma, they were still present in 1832 when U.S. Rangers arrived with civilian observers.

In 1825, preparing for the arrival of the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory, the U.S. Government made a treaty with the Osage Indians.

Sagamite

Sagamité was used in ceremonies to celebrate welcomed guests by tribes such as the Peoria, Huron, Osage, and early Caddo tribes of Arkansas.

Sullivan Line

In 1816, surveyor John C. Sullivan was instructed to survey the Osage territory starting 20 WEST of Fort Clark at the confluence of the Kansas River and Missouri River.

Treaty of Fort Clark

In early 1808, Meriwether Lewis led a group to the site of Fort Osage near Sibley, Missouri where they built the fort on a bluff above the Missouri River.


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