Osage Nation
Sign in to saveAlso known as Ni-U-Kon-Ska, NiuKonska, Wazházhe, Osages, Wazhazhe, Osage, People of the Middle Waters, The Osage Nation
Native American Siouan-speaking tribe in the United States
Key facts
- Tribe
- Osage Nation
- Country
- United States
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Osage
- Headtown
- Pawhuska
- Type
- Republic
- Body
- Osage Nation Congress
- Principal chief
- Geoffrey Standing Bear ( R )
- Assistant principal chief
- RJ Walker ( R )
- Total
- 2,200 sq mi (5,700 km )
- Density
- 22/sq mi (8.3/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-6
- Summer dst
- UTC-5 (central)
- Website
- osagenation-nsn.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Native language
- Osage
- Religion
- Native American Church
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Kansas
- Population
- 28000
- Headquarters
- Pawhuska
- Official website
- www.osagenation-nsn.gov
- Image
- Photo of an Osage delegation to Washington D.C.jpg
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- different from
- Osage
- Commons category
- Osage
- topic's main category
- Category:Osage Nation
- native label
- 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 𐓁𐓣𐓤𐓘𐓯𐓣
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Encyclopedic overview
The Osage Nation (/ˈoʊseɪdʒ/ OH-sayj) (Osage: 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 𐓁𐓣𐓤𐓘𐓯𐓣, lit. 'People of the Middle Waters') is a federally recognized Native American tribe in Oklahoma.
They are an Indigenous people of the Great Plains historically from the Midwestern United States. The tribe began in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys around 1620 along with other groups of its language family, then migrated west in the 17th century due to Iroquois incursions.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Osage Nation” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.