French transliterations of the tribe's name settled on a spelling of Osage, which was also used by European Americans.

Iron Hawk was named Grand Tsi Shu Chief ( or Peace Chief ) of the Osage Nation ( through the 19th Century, it was tradition for the Osage Chief to take the name " White Hair ".

It derives its name from two streams nearby, the Osage and Potawatomie.

Osawatomie's name is a compound of two primary native American Indian tribes from the area, the Osage and Pottawatomie.

As early as 1883 there was agitation to change the name of Osage Mission because it suggested it was still an Indian Mission.

Some claim the new name was selected to honor the Apostle Paul, but it was most probably selected in honor of St. Paul of the Cross, founder of the Passionists, who had just then established a home in Osage Mission.

The Osage Mission Infirmary & Guest House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is managed under the name, St. Ann's Bed and Breakfast.

The name " Neosho " is generally accepted to be of Native American ( most likely Osage ) derivation, meaning " clear, cold water ", referring to local freshwater springs.

Located on the Osage River, the land that became the town of Osceola was inhabitied by the tribe of native Americans who gave the river its name.

The town's name came from an Osage chief called " Gra-moi.

Osage County is the name of several counties in the United States:

The term Ponca was the name of a clan among the Kansa, Osage, and Quapaws.

The region is called “ The Osage ” by Oklahomans, referring to the name of the county and the Indian tribe to which the land belonged.

* Robert L. Ramsay who wrote etymologies for the names of many place names in Missouri speculated it was English translation for the earlier French name Rivière Cent Deux, this in turn being a corruption of the Osage Çondse, meaning ' Upland Forest ' ( however the traditional area of Osage control was well south of the 102 River ).

White Hair ( Pawhuska ) is the English name of several Osage Indian leaders in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.

In the Treaty of St. Louis ( 1825 ), the Osage were made to " cede and relinquish to the United States, all their right, title, interest, and claim, to lands lying within the State of Missouri and Territory of Arkansas ..." to make room for the Cherokee and the Mashcoux, Muscogee Creeks.

As tribes were relocated, some received land grants in exchange for their former lands, and others ( such as Osage, Seminole, and Chickasaw ) ultimately purchased their land, usually receiving Fee simple title to the land.

With the 1870 Drum Creek Treaty, the Kansas land was sold for $ 1. 25 per acre and the Osage purchased in Indian Territory ’ s Cherokee Outlet, the current Osage County, Oklahoma.

A patent was awarded in 2012 for an insect repelling device using Osage orange.

The samples, donated by " Mr. Peter Choteau, who resided the greater portion of his time for many years with the Osage Nation " according to Lewis's letter, didn't take, but later the thorny Osage-orange was widely naturalized throughout the U. S. In 1810, Bradbury relates that he found two trees growing in the garden of Pierre Chouteau, one of the first settlers of St. Louis ( apparently " Peter Choteau ").

Meriwether Lewis was told that the people of the Osage Nation " esteem the wood of this tree for the making of their bows, that they travel many hundred miles in quest of it.

Named for President George Washington, it is the smallest county in Oklahoma in total area, adjacent to the largest county in Oklahoma, Osage County.

The Osage Nation had moved into the area by the 19th Century. They ceded this land to the Federal Government in exchange for another area farther west in Indian Territory.

In 1870, the Osage finally prepared for removal from Kansas, after having negotiated payment for their land.

All subsurface minerals, including oil, are owned by the Osage tribe and held in trust for them by the Federal Government.

Other Osage were tricked out of their legal rights by unscrupulous white opportunists, in some cases attorneys or businessmen appointed by local courts as " guardians " to the Osage, under the requirements of a law passed by Congress in 1921 that was meant for their protection, but put them more at risk.

Historically, the area was a hunting ground for the Wichita, Osage, and Kiowa tribes.

The Osage stopped at the springs for its healing properties on their way to hunting at the plains, which attracted migratory birds and varieties of wildlife.

The county was organized January 29, 1841, and named for the Osage River.

The city of Osage City is considered governmentally independent and is excluded from the census figures for the townships.

First visited by the explorer DeSoto in 1537, Cowley County was officially organized as a county, but reserved for the Osage Indians, by the Kansas Legislature in March 1867, originally named Hunter County for Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter ( 1809 – 1887 ), a Virginia Representative and Senator to Congress and Speaker of the House in the twenty-sixth Congress.

The Osage would leave their settlements to hunt in present-day Benton County for months at a time before returning to their families.

By this time, the Osage had ceased using the area for hunting, and the White settlers began to establish farms.

Upon establishment of Benton County on September 30, 1836, Osage was deemed a suitable site for the county seat, and the town square was established as the home of county government the following year.

The land for Attica was purchased from the Osage Land Trust, which also held the surrounding farmland.

The Osage, Omaha, Ponca and Kaw lived in the Ohio Valley, but under pressure from the Iroquois to the northeast, migrated west of the Mississippi River to Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma in the 1600s.

As late as the winter of 1838, Cherokee and Creek living in the Missouri and Arkansas areas petitioned the War Department to remove the Osage from the area.

By the early 18th century the Osage had become the dominant power in the Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas, controlling much of the land between the Red River and Missouri River.

In Arkansas, in the early 19th century, a good Osage bow was worth a horse and a blanket.

This is best documented among Osage and Quapaw Indian tribes of Missouri and Arkansas.

His article describing the visit includes an old map showing the fort located on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Sand Creek, just south of the line separating Tulsa County and Osage County.

According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Arkansas Band of the Osage Nation settled in the Three Forks area ( the junction of the Arkansas River, Grand River and Verdigris River during the 1760s and established two villages called Pasuga and Pasona in what is now Rogers County.

In 1825, The Osage ceded parts of present-day Missouri, Arkansas and most of the future state of Oklahoma to the federal government.

In 1828, the Western Cherokees ceded their land in Western Arkansas to the Federal Government and obtained the land just vacated by the Osage.

By the seventeenth century, the Osage had moved west of the Mississippi River and established themselves as a powerful nation in the areas of present-day Missouri and Arkansas between the Missouri and Red rivers, as well as extending to the west.

About 1820, a group of Delaware, who had allied with the Cheokee against the Osage, settled Delaware Town, about two miles south of the present town of Eucha In 1828, the Western Cherokee moved from Arkansas Territory into the area just south of the present Delaware County.

This was probably because their dominion encompassed the land between the Missouri and Osage rivers to the north, the Mississippi River to the east, and the Arkansas River to the south.

Osage was renamed Bentonville in honor of Thomas Hart Benton, a senator from Missouri who strongly supported Arkansas statehood.

But, it is known that the Osage Indians were roaming on lands north of the Arkansas River.

Native Americans roamed the area freely before Arkansas was a territory, the Cherokee and Osage lived in this area that would later become attractive to settlers.

The treaties consolidated affirmed the Treaty of St. Louis ( 1804 ) in which the Sac and Fox ceding northeast Missouri and much of Illinois and Wisconsin and the 1808 Treaty of Fort Clark in which the Osage Nation ceded all of Missouri and Arkansas.

McKey was established on the Old Osage and Arkansas Valley Railroad near MacKey's Salt Works.

In 1806, the territorial legislature created the District of Arkansas from lands ceded by the Osage Nation.

) By the end of the 18th century, these two tribes were dominant in the eastern part of the future state: the Kansa on the Kansas River to the North and the Osage on the Arkansas River to the South.

In 1947, Cleo and Mary moved to Osage, Arkansas, while Brown stayed in Los Angeles.

The Osage particularly dominated the Caddo and pushed them out of some former territory, becoming dominant in the region of Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Oklahoma.

Rivers where black carp have been captured also include the White in Arkansas, the Atchafalaya and Red in Louisiana, and the Osage in Missouri.