A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting western Missouri and later southeast Kansas, with a present-day population in north-central Oklahoma. Substantial oil reserves were discovered on Osage lands in the early 1900s.
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A member of a North American Indian people that migrated, over time, from the east coast of the U.S. to the Piedmont, then to Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
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The Siouan language of the Osage.
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(place) River in central Mo. & E Kans., flowing east into the Missouri: c. 500 mi (805 km)
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The Siouan language of this people.
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Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
osage
Plural:
osages
Origin of osage
French from Osage wazházheethnic self-designation
From
American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Osage Sentence Examples
Osawatomie was settled about 1854 by colonists sent by the Emigrant Aid Company, and was platted in 1855 its name was coined from parts of the words "Osage" and "Pottawatomie."
Polished rocks outside the cavern and pictographs in the vicinity indicate the work of a prehistoric race earlier than the Osage Indians, who were the historic owners previous to the advent of the white man.
The maple, walnut, oak, ash, beech, elm, gum, sycamore, hickory and poplar, found on the southern slope of the Osage highlands, on the uplands about the source of the highlands and in the central portions of the Red river valley, are valuable for cabinet woods.