OSAGE TRIBEO

LOCATION AND CLIMATE

• Originaly located in Missouri Oklahoma and Arkansas, but now mainly in Oklahoma
• Hot humid summers
• Long cold winters
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FOOD ACCOSIATED WITH TRIBE

• Big hunters, hunted buffalo
• Raised crops such as:
• Corn, beans, squash, pumpkins
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OSAGE HOMES

• Lived in settled villages
• Of round earthen lodges
• Made from wooden frames, and packed earth
• And tipis for campingj tents made of buffalo hide
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WEAPONS AND TOOLS OF OSAGE

• Bows and arrows
• Especially well made longbows
• Also war clubs, and spears
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RELIGION/RELIGIOUSE CEREMONIES

• Their religion was Pantheistic
• The Osage had both crisis and calendrical rituals
• One ceremony was in the late summer and was a green corn ceremony
• There is even some mention of human sacrifice
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FAMILY LIFE FOR ALL MEMBERS

• Children mostly went out hunting and fishing with their fathers
• Men were hungers, amd went to war to protect their families
• Osage women cared for the children, coo ked food, and farmed
• Only men became osage cheifs
• Both genders took part in storytelling, artwork, music, and traditional medicine
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TYPE OF GOVERNMENT

• Had own government, laws, police, and services
• Led by a cheif, who was chosen by the tribal council
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