Book Synopsis
OSAGE NATION OF OKLAHOMA is an anthology of fourteen essays that trace the cecessions of thousands of acres of ancestral home lands through 1906 when the once-powerful Osages allotted their final home in Indian Territory. The essays cover Osage treaties with the U.S., their dependence upon the buffalo, civilization afforts, agriculture and planting, education, reservation traders, Osage agency personnel, the Wah-Shah-She News reservation newspaper, clarifying the Osage census rolls, fraud, and allotment.