While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The Osage were placed on the Missouri in 1673 by Marquette, who called them the
Wasashe; were allies of the Illinois, and near the last of the past century had
been driven down to the Arkansas. Coming in contact with the French, they became
their firm allies, and joined them in many of their operations against Spanish
and English and other Indians; in 1804, made peace with the Sacs and Foxes, with
whom they had been at war, and settled on the Great Osage River. Their numbers
were estimated then at 6,300. The usual succession of treaties ceding lands, and
wars with neighboring Indians followed, reducing them very much in numbers,
until the breaking out of the civil war, when 1,000 of them went South and
joined the Con federacy. Treaties of 1865, 1866, and 1870 provided for the
conveying of their lands in trust to the United States, and for their removal to
the Indian Territory, where they have been placed under the care of the Society
of Friends, and are now making rapid progress toward a self-supporting
condition.
They now number 3,001, of whom 323 are civilized, self-supporting mixed-bloods.
List of illustrations.
511.Joseph, Paw-Ne No-Pa-Zhe.
Not Afraid of the Pawnees. Governor or chief of the tribe. Was born on the Osage
reservation when in Kansas, and when 12 years of age was placed in a Catholic
mission, where he received a good English education. He still retains the old
customs and habits of his tribe, however. Is a brave and warlike chief, but yet
exerts all his influence to secure peace between his people and the whites. Is
about 40 years of age, 6 feet in height, with a large and commanding physique;
head, 22¼; chest, 41.
886. Shonga-Sa-Pa. Black Dog.
The youngest of the six principal chiefs of the tribe. Is 28 years of age, and
was born on the present reservation. Is the descendant of a long line of chiefs,
one of whom was principal in establishing peace between the Government and the
wild tribes. With the governor, Joseph, he visited Washington in 1876 to adjust
various business matters in connection with his tribe. Age, 28; height, 5.11½;
head, 22¾; chest, 38.
887. Group representing the governor and some of the head men or councillors of
the nation, as follows:
Joseph Paw-Ne-No-Pa-Zhe. See No. 511.
Chetopah
Died in 1876, aged 38. Was among the first to commence farming and to live in
the white man's way.
Che-Zhe-Lun-Kah. Strike Axe.
Born on the Osage reservation in Kansas 45 years ago. Is one of the principal
"peace chiefs," and also chief of one of the largest bands of the Osages, over
whom he has unbounded influence.
Big Chief.
Chief councilor of the nation, a man of good sense and much influence. Is the
son of a chief ; 45 years of age, and was born in Kansas.
Hard Rope.
Head war chief of the nation, and a man of considerable ability as an orator.
Served as a scout under General Custer during the Indian war in the Indian
Territory. Is now 50 years old.
513. Kah-He-Ka-Wah-Ti-An-Ka. Saucy Chief.
509. Nom-Pa-Wa-Le. A Savage.
510. Ke-Si-Si-Gre. A Distant Land.
512. Mah-Kea-Pu-At-See. One Who Reaches To The Sky.
888. Joseph and Black Dog.
889. Joseph, Black Dog, Ogeas Captain, and J. N. Florer
Descriptive Catalogue, Photographs Of North American Indians. United States Geological Survey
of the Territories, 1877 by W. H. Jackson, Photographer of the Survey,
F. V. Hayden, U. S. Geologist.
