U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs' Investigations of Impropriety, Fraud & Wrongdoing Among Osage Nation Traders, 1896--1902

U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs' Investigations of Impropriety, Fraud & Wrongdoing Among Osage Nation Traders, 1896--1902 is a compilation of government investigations and hearings that exposed schemes by reservation traders on three occasions to bypass Legislative approval and tap directly into the Osage Trust, a so-called "dead money fund" held by the U.S. Treasury. Bribes were concocted by reservation traders in 1893, 1895, and 1899 to secure $200,000, $300,000, and $800,000 claimed by the traders to pay Osage indebtedness at reservation trading establishments. This volume traces these attempts to fleece the Osage people through the following reports: "Osage Indian Funds"; "Payment of Osage Indian Hearings"; and "Adjustment of Osage Traders Claims."

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