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Osages

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O·sage  (sj, -sj)
n. pl. Osage or O·sag·es
1.
a. 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 20th century.
b. A member of this people.
2. The Siouan language of the Osage.
[French, from Osage wazházhe, tribal name.]
Osage adj.


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The Kansas resemble the Osages in features, dress, and language; they raise corn and hunt the buffalo, ranging the Kansas River, and its tributary streams; at the time of the captain's visit, they were at war with the Pawnees of the Nebraska, or Platte River.
The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U.S.A., in the Rocky Mountains and the far West by Irving, Washington View in context
I have struck the Pawnees, the Konzas, the Omahaws, the Osages, and even the Long-knives.
The Prairie by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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