Osage
Americannoun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly of western Missouri, now living in northern Oklahoma.
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the Siouan language of the Osage.
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a river flowing E from E Kansas to the Missouri River in central Missouri. 500 miles (800 km) long.
noun
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a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in an area between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers
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the language of this people, belonging to the Siouan family
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After my role in “August: Osage County” in 2013, I seemed to be taken more seriously.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 3, 2026
Jacobs-Jenkins has written a domestic drama in the epic tradition of “Death of a Salesman,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” and “August: Osage County.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Partners from the Osage Nation provide essential feedback, evaluating the pros and cons of the equipment used in the field and the accuracy of the information generated.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 4, 2024
Many were anticipating a historic win for Gladstone for her subtle and affecting work as an Osage wife in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2024
She had stuck around while E’s aunties and mom and family friends dressed her in her Osage clothes.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
“To us, to Osages, there’s a direct silence about Native America,” Tinker Smith said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 19, 2021
In Little House on the Prairie, Ma overcomes her distaste for Indians and feeds the Osages, who own the land the Ingalls family mistakenly occupies; the chief later saves them from slaughter.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2012
For a while, the Osages could only use images of their script for software—a rough workaround that didn’t give them much access to digital tools.
From Slate
There are Osages who declare that he did not draw the line at his own horses.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later, Hale wrote a letter to an assistant chief of the tribe, saying, “I never had better friends in my life than the Osages....I will always be the Osages true Friend.”
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
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