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Osage I [1]. Neighboring Counties. Location Map. General compliance by Cemeteries of Osage County, Oklahoma online and in print. Tombstone Transcriptions Online. Tombstone Transcriptions in Print Often more complete. Family History Library WorldCat. As owners, the Osage retained the communal mineral rights to their reservation lands. It was located along Butler Creek.
It arranged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to sub-lease the eastern part of the Osage reservation until When ITIO's lease expired, the United States government supervised the public auctioning of leases for acre 65 ha tracts.
All subsurface minerals, including oil, are owned by the Osage Nation and held in trust for them by the Federal Government. Each mineral lease was negotiated by the Osage National Council and approved by the U. Secretary of the Interior. The Osage distributed their surplus communal land to tribal members, so that in each Osage was given a total of acres ha , nearly four times the amount that other Indian households received in the allotment process.
Later the enrolled Osage and their descendants received oil and other mineral royalties as payments based on these "headrights". Main article: Osage Indian murders. By , the Osage were receiving lucrative revenues from royalties and were counted as the richest people in the country. During the s, Osage County was the site of the infamous Osage Indian murders.
Because of the great wealth being generated by oil, an estimated 60 tribal members were killed as whites tried to gain their headrights, royalties or land. The FBI believed that several white husbands of Osage women had committed or ordered their murders. The Osage called in the FBI to help solve several murders in the Kyle family, and three men were convicted and sentenced. But, many murders were never solved.
Oklahoma's largest county by area, Osage County is located in the north-central part of the state and contains a total land and water area of 2, Created at statehood the county was named for and is home to the Osage tribe and is contiguous with the Osage Nation Reservation. It is surrounded by Washington County on the east, Tulsa County on the east and south, Pawnee County on the south, Noble and Kay counties on the west, and the state of Kansas on the north.
Highway 60 runs east-west through the county, and state highways include 10, 11, 18, 20, 35, 97, 99, and Most of Osage County lies in the Osage Plains physiographic region and is characterized by open and rolling prairie. The extreme east-northeastern area of the county is in the Eastern Lowlands region.
Gray Horse, Salt, and Drum creeks drain the county's western and southern sections. These streams flow south into the Arkansas River, which serves as part of the county's southern and western boundaries. Archaeologists have identified two Paleo-Indian prior to B. The first recorded exploration of the region was conducted by Lt.
James B. Wilkinson in He was followed by Capt. John R. Bell of the Maj. Stephen H. Nathan Boone in A branch of the Shawnee Trail crossed southern and western Osage County during the mids. By the Osage of Missouri had increased their range to include present Osage County.
They surrendered their claim to the region in and and removed to a Kansas reservation. In the area was included in the "perpetual outlet west" guaranteed to the Cherokee Nation under the Treaty of New Echota. In , under the Cherokee Reconstruction Treaty of , the Osage began the process of purchasing approximately 1,, acres in the Cherokee Outlet from the Cherokee Nation.
Osage Agent Isaac T. The Osage Reservation boundary was finalized in when the Kaw, or Kansa, acquired approximately one hundred thousand acres in the reservation's northwest corner. The Kaw lands were included in Kay County at statehood. Represented by delegates T. Leahy and James J.
Pawhuska was designated as the county seat and construction of the present courthouse started in The Osage Allotment Act was approved in June Between and each enrolled Osage received an average allotment of
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