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

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

Over the past few years, he’s helped the Osages have their font accepted by the Unicode Consortium and make keyboards featuring it.

From Slate

Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!"

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