Osage: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Ni-u-kon-ska • Wazhazhe

Photos

Painting by George Catlin showing four Osage people, including a woman holding a child and three men with decorated clothing, feathered headdresses, and weapons, set outdoors.

Osage; Calvin Coolidge

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Topics

Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains Oceti Sakowin Blackfoot Cheyenne Mandan Crow Arikara Hidatsa Comanche Pawnee Assiniboin

Key People

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James Owen Dorsey

American ethnologist