I live near where they struck oil. Oil rigs still working, and they are still a rich tribe. Pawhuska is where the Tall Grass Prairie Reserve with Buffalo on it is located. Been there many many times. The Battle of the Strawberry Moon took place down the road from me at Claremore Mound. The Osage crossed boundaries into Oklahoma and onto Cherokee land. The Cherokee snuck up and attacked them while the men were out hunting. Many Osage women and children were killed. The men and Chief heard all the noise, rushed back and hid the remaining women and children in a nearby cave...noone can find it today. But then they dammed up the river that runs next to the mound. The river may be covering it up. The Osage moved and purchased land one mile down the road and hit oil. I ride my motorcycle out there almost daily in the summers. I go down to the river and hunt artifacts. Archaeologist already did that. They found metal arrowheads and other things. I found a 10k yr old scraper, surface find right where the Osage camped. It's a sod farm now. That's why the scraper was a surface find. That's the ONLY thing I've found there. The ppl who live across the river said they find arrowheads all the time down there. Well I want to find one lol. My scraper is beautiful tho. It's reddish and white. Prized Kansas Chert they think. The Archaeological Society of Oklahoma dated it. Here you can keep any artifacts you find. Unlike out in the SW where you have to look and leave it or else. I'd rather be able to take them, otherwise they will eventually get eaten up by tractors and whatnot. I am a member of The Cherokee Nation and Huron Wendat Confederacy AKA The Wyandotte Nation. I went with the Wyandottes, b/c our numbers fell so low, we almost lost everything. Language has been reconstructed. It took yrs and tons of reading and research from old logs and journals by Friars, The French, who said we were warriors and very good at it. So that's why we left Nova Scotia. Always fighting with other tribes. We banded together for protection from the other NE Confederacy. THey banded together for protection from us lol. What a mess. I'm glad we are now sovereign, finally. The Cherokees always have been. There's too many Cherokees. The healthcare was awful. It's improved a LOT since the casino's went up everywhere in Oklahoma. OMG it's Casino Nation now. All owned by Tribes. They say it's how we got the white man back for taking our lands. lol. We just take your money!

As a Wichita resident my first home had an abstract (deed) dating all the way back to time of Osage ownership. This dates back to where the Plat of Wichita was originally laid out. I’m not sure of the exact date, but somewhere around 1860’s.

I’m reading a book called killers of the flower moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI and omg I can’t put it down the story of these people and what they have gone through is unbelievable

My great grandmother was Osage. She left the reservation to marry a white settler and her heritage was never celebrated from then on. I am 1/8th Osage, I would love to one day discover the threads of our Osage roots in full.

I used to play music in Tulsa years ago and became friends with a couple of musicians who were Osage. They were very smart and very tall people. My dad told me stories about when the Osage became very wealthy from the oil discovered on their land. A lot of Osage had so much money that some would buy a brand new Cadillac and drive until it ran out of gas and leave it on the side of the road. When it wouldn't run any more, they would just go buy another one. The dealers didn't tell them to go to a gas station an refill the tank. Respect to my Osage Friends!

My father is Osage, my mother is Cherokee, my dad died way before he was able to teach me of what my heritage is and my mom knows nothing of her or my fathers Native heritage. I long to know more about my heritage, I want to embrace it so badly but I know nothing. This helps a little.

I am pretty into books but I've never seen people online rave about a book like I've seen people have about 'Killers of the flower moon', so I had to buy it, will get it in a few days.

Proud to be named Osage

This piece barely scratches the surface of what happened to these people after they stuck gold. Y'all didn't feel like talking about the white people who married into their families and then killed everyone off for the inheritance?

Excellent thank you

The Osage were the tribe Laura Ingalls Wilder described in her children’s book “Little House on the Prairie.” The Ingalls were squatters on a strip of land in SE Kansas known as the Osage Diminished Reserve, which was reserved for Osage hunting before the 1870 mass move to Indian Territory. They were there at the same time the Osage were finally forced to move just south into Indian Territory. This film mentions the purchase of that land - now known as Osage County in Oklahoma - from the Cherokee who years earlier had been forced to move from their homelands in the “Trail of Tears.” Both of the regions of SE Kansas (Independence) and NE Oklahoma (Tulsa) were later the heart of the oil boom of the 1910s to 1930s. The Osage WERE the richest Indian Nation at that time…..which followed their historical achievements in trading, negotiations and language.

I read about Sacred Sun, an Osage woman, who along with other Osage natives were taken to France on a tour to show Europeans real indians. According to what I read the natives were treated well at first but when the money of the French man who took them there ran out, the natives were treated just as awful as they were here. But a journalist did a story on them and the good locals took them in and raised enough money to send them back to the US. Sacred Sun had twins while they were in France and was talked into giving one to a widow woman who had no kids in exchange for her helping Sacred Sun. After getting back home and a widow herself now, Sacred Sun died in her 20's. This was on wikipedia. If I got any facts wrong, I truly apologize. I'm not Osage but my Dad's grandmother was Blackfoot. Her name was Addie and her brother wanted to take my Dad's sister to the reservation to show their family because my aunt was born albino..lol. But being in KY made it impossible. But I'd love to see a movie made about Sacred Sun and her fellow tribespeople that went to France.

do the have a tribal memory of Dan'l Boon

My Father in Law was 1/2 Osage. He grew on on the Reservation. He Mother also married a white man. My husband a PROUD man. My Father law died November of 2005. His only child my husband died 7 months after his Dad June of 2006, they both died of cancer. I'm PROUD of them both.

Im Osage and proud

My husband is Osage and has taught me so much of what the government has tried to hide😿

Greetings from the token white guy from the Osage Reservation town of Fairfax. Love to all my native Pawnee and Osage peoples back home!Cant wait to hear the drums again.

Killers of the flower moon.

I'm native American to

My great grandfather is from the Osage tribe

Thanks for sharing this video yes history is fascinating story tellers as well honor your ancestor's music and lyrics inter tribal respect for one another's people dream smoke white sage, women sage, sweet grass to clean air the aura that surround us A'ho thanks!!🐢🐢🌲🐢🐢 great law of peace

I'm proud to be osage

Explain why my family left to California around that time crazy I'm just learning about it.

Well done!

I liked that video it taught me a lot

I learned Osage is in my heritage. Thank you for the educational video!

Osage and proud of it

I read the book with sadness and shame for what "we" did to the people of the Osage Nation. Murder was one way of getting hold of what was called a "headright" or stock in the oil wealth in their land. The federal government set the Osage people up for failure by forcing each Osage to have a "guardian: of their financial wealth. There are non-Osage people and families today such as the Drummond family which owns 130,000 acres of land in Osage County and are said to own "headrights". The Universities of Oklahoma and Texas are said to own "headrights" as are around 2,000 non-Osage people or groups. In the beginning, only Osage owned those headrights. The story of how those headrights got into the hands of non-Osage people is what the book is about. It is heartbreaking.

Read "Sophie's Candle"- by Ronald Goodman it's uplifting

Never mentions the murder and segregation of the Osage for their oil rich land that they owned.

I believe something happened to my second great grandfathers father my family is getting DNA match to a Wright female who son lived on the Osage Indian reservation but ID as white. Which something is off because my second great grandfather was mix race but both of his parents ID as white on that Reservation.

WOW!

This was a video to promote an art exhibit of Osage art and culture by the St. Louis art museum. The Reign of Terror wasn't part of this exhibit, but only refence it as part of the overall story.

Love seeing this.

So good to listen from their own voice about their culture and the appreciation they have for a better tomorrow. The handcrafts and patterns showed are beautiful.

2021-Martin Scorsese

The Osages look a lot like the Lakota, Nakota, and the Dakota people.

Theres a little tiny bit in my background its so distant but is going to visit reservations this summer

Are the Osages closely related to the Shawnee and Caddo people? I thought Osage were close to extinction

How is, walks like a bear, spoken ? I was given this name. I need to know my fathers grandma was Osage.

Hi im trying to locate my mom and gpas relatives williams roscoe ...my mom was debbie theres no way my gma had her shd was rh negative and mom rh positive and i know there an osage connection

Know some body from Missouri whos half Osage from Blue Springs

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How many Osages are there today?

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Was the Osage the only natives in arkansas..I am from Benton..part french and native american..these are the lightest skinned native Americans I have ever seen... I am,also there light Carmel color

Surprised they didn't mention the reign of terror.

Hello Theresa I am looking forward to learning more from you about native american belief,s, the little that I do know was told to me by my grandma her grandfather was the chief of the Osage reservation, I have a E-mail address but no facebook how should we continue? should I give you my E-mail address? whatever works for you is OK with me

It really is ridiculous the way these murders were not prosecuted

I’m part Osage

I’m reading now the book “ Killers of the flower Moon” in Spanish … there is no words to explain what the “white people “ did with this amazing natives and I’m sure there is more hiding stories thru the story from this USA government . Hope this movie will be release in October can speak up about all this twisted atrocities that they did to them .

the osage😊😊😊😊

In the traditional Osage beliefs b4 Christianity, did my people believe we live on a flat plane.? please only an Osage please give me the answer.

My grandmother was one of the original 2229 head right allotments

Osage Indians School

^^^ may someone PLEASE explain to me, just what is the "FLOWER MOON"? why is no one explaining just what this is or means? does the book specify? what exactly does the title of the book... "KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON" actually mean?

Eau sage in French language, yes, French people were first to encounter Osage People.

My people call it corn.

Osage massacred over hundred kiowas at cut throat gap? Why?

Algonquin, Algoma and Osage.

German and Osage

Avery good-looking people.

that quarter osage blood. ;)

Where was the church at

i'm black saying i do no some real osage indian

If Elizabeth Warren can be indians so can you but not aboriginal American long live the Arkansas shainers Osage for ever dark skin people eight skin that shine

I think John Denver's mother was Osage.

The people in Arkansas who are part Caucasian are still American Indians .

Buffalo!!

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They are *not Indians* they are natives

It is wrong how she holds it. She is just nervous.

I can not wait for Martin’s Scorsese film

The picture shows the indian had sold out his tribe to the white man as well he is wearing templars cross.

It's a shame that you can't pronounce the tribe name properly stolen legacy long live the Arkansas shainers dark skined people with skin that shine

Learn your Constitutional rights too.Your a US citizen too!

I am EMBARRASSED TO BE WHITE AND YOU SHOULD BE TO TBH

This video made me want to throw up. It makes it sound like is was something other than greed inspired murder that reigned terror on the Osage. And, almost even worse, is the implication that christianity was somehow the savior of the Osage. It was forced down their throats just like it was to all the native americans that weren't murdered either directly or indirectly by the government attempts to "save" them by putting them on reservations. Others here have suggested books to read. Let me suggest "Killers of the Flower Moon," by David Grann.

The Osage natives. They wanted oil.

Excuse me, I came here to learn about the Osage, the people and the things they faced, and this thing here does none of the people of focus justice by absolutely removing or downright lying about what the white men were doing. Completely disrespectful and very much an outrage. I can't believe before David Grann's book that this type of watered down drivel was all that people had to learn about indigenous peoples of America and people are still absolutely okay with acting like they never suffered or that they had no right to speak on it. Just incredible. Incredible in the worst way. I'm headed elsewhere. This whole video is nonsense.

This is definitely the white mans documentary.

When you loose your religion you loose your identity