Example Sentences

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“To us, to Osages, there’s a direct silence about Native America,” Tinker Smith said.

From New York Times • Aug. 19, 2021

That year, the Osages ceded 4,650 square miles, an area slightly smaller than Connecticut, in exchange for 1,200 cattle and hogs, 1,000 chickens, and goods totaling $140,000.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2014

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

Like the Cherokee, who developed a syllabary for their language in the early 1800s, the Osages use their own alphabet.

From Slate

An opening statement read, “In early missionary journals Osages were often described as being ‘the happiest people in the world.’...They had a sense of freedom because they didn’t own anything and nothing owned them.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann