Osage Nation

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The Osage Nation (, OH-sayj) (Osage: 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟 𐓁𐓣𐓤𐓘𐓯𐓣‎, romanized: Wažaže Nikaši, 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 Haudenosaunee incursions. The term Osage is a French version, from eau sage, of the tribe's name, which can be roughly translated as 'calm water'. The Osage people refer to themselves in their Dhegihan Siouan language as (𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟‎, Wazhazhe, 'Middle Waters'). By the early 19th century, the Osage had become the dominant power in the region, feared by neighboring tribes. The tribe controlled the area between the Missouri and Red rivers, the Ozarks to the east and the foothills of the Wichita Mountains to the south. They depended on nomadic buffalo hunting and...

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