| Lcnaf uri | http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85095861 |
| Organization name | Osage indians |
| Other names | Wazhazhe |
| Org type | Indian group |
| Bio notes | Autonym Wazhazhe. Historically located in the Midwestern Great Plains and first documented on banks of Osage River in western Missouri, the Degighan Siouan-speaking Osage controlled much of Missuori, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, where they were reknowned for their size and prowess as warriors. They often traded with the fur traders based in Fort Carondelet as well as the Chouteau family. The Osage were later struck by a smallpox epidemic in 1801-1802, and by 1808, some had moved to western Missouri and others to the Three Forks area of Oklahoma. When Cherokee and Choctaw moved west due to settler pressure, they infringed on Osage territory and sparked some battles--a particular example being the bloody Battle of Claremore Mound (1817), after which the Osage ceded their eastern Arkansas territories to the US Government, which were then given to the Cherokee. In 1825 the Osage signed another land cession treaty, after which they moved to a southeastern Kansas reservation land and recieved multiple protestant missionaries. |
| Citations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation |
Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793
New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook
Wm. Hartshorne's Journal of Journey to Detroit 1793