[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  memetic_sisyphus [@memeticsisyphus](/creator/twitter/memeticsisyphus) on x 58.5K followers Created: 2025-07-22 19:15:59 UTC I was attending an event in my home town of St. Louis at Washington university. The speaker opened the event with something I had previously never heard; a land acknowledgment that we were standing on historic Osage land. Not far from there in the unaffiliated Washington state park, you can find petroglyphs carved into the stone. The glyphs date to around XXXXX AD. They were not carved by Osage hands. The Osage originated in the Ohio river valley. They were pushed west of the Mississippi by the warring Iroquois tribe. The Osage killed whoever lived where those rocks were carved. They spread out as far west as Kansas and Oklahoma wiping out many local tribes. The missionaries who first made contact with the Osage people described them as proud warriors, standing over 6ft tall. Their armies managed an empire in central United States for over XXX years. They bordered other warrior led tribes, like the Comanche and Apache. The Osage worked with the French who were settling along the Mississippi. Chiefs of the Osage traveled to Paris, and saw the palace of Versailles. Louis the XV took them on a hunting expedition in the French country side. They built an alliance with the French and helped them fight off Spanish aggression from the south. When the French-Indian war came the Osage people fought with the French against the American Colonists. They suffered heavy losses and with the wars end lost half of their territory to the American colonies. By the 19th century their numbers were already dwindling, some XXXXX estimated. A wave of smallpox hit them and killed about half. The Osage continued periodic raids killing American settlers along the US’s western most frontier. St. Louis began to grow, and the Osage were too big a problem to ignore, but neither party was ready to go to all out war. So the U.S. government signed a treaty with the Osage for a cease in hostilities for the land of Missouri. The Osage were now considered an ally of the U.S. the Osage turned their attention to the native tribes in their borderlands. They went to war with the Cherokee people, raiding their villages, killing their men and taking their women. The violence was so great that the Cherokee pleaded with the U.S. to help stop them. The U.S. intervened helping the Cherokee defeat a large Osage raiding party, building fort smith in Arkansas as a “DMZ” between the warring nations. The Osage were also required to cede more territory to the U.S. This did not stop the Osage from waging war. They turned their attention to central Oklahoma. They captured a large band of Kiowa executing all of their prisoners and displaying their severed heads on top of cooking buckets. This greatly angered the Kiowa who allied with the Comanche to seek revenge. Resulting in a bloody tit for tat between the two sides. When the civil war came the Osage people allied themselves with the confederacy, eager to beat back the U.S. union who they viewed as invaders. Part of the cost of defeat was their forced sale of land remaining in Kansas and forced into Oklahoma reservations. Where they live today. Unlike many tribes they maintain the mineral rights to their lands, owning them outright. As a history fan, I love learning about the land I grew up in, and the people who also once lived there. But I feel no need to acknowledge their right of conquest as being somehow more noble or legitimate than the settlers who built the city I grew up in. XXXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [louis](/topic/louis) [Post Link](https://x.com/memeticsisyphus/status/1947737404095320100)
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Created: 2025-07-22 19:15:59 UTC
I was attending an event in my home town of St. Louis at Washington university. The speaker opened the event with something I had previously never heard; a land acknowledgment that we were standing on historic Osage land.
Not far from there in the unaffiliated Washington state park, you can find petroglyphs carved into the stone. The glyphs date to around XXXXX AD. They were not carved by Osage hands.
The Osage originated in the Ohio river valley. They were pushed west of the Mississippi by the warring Iroquois tribe. The Osage killed whoever lived where those rocks were carved. They spread out as far west as Kansas and Oklahoma wiping out many local tribes.
The missionaries who first made contact with the Osage people described them as proud warriors, standing over 6ft tall. Their armies managed an empire in central United States for over XXX years. They bordered other warrior led tribes, like the Comanche and Apache.
The Osage worked with the French who were settling along the Mississippi. Chiefs of the Osage traveled to Paris, and saw the palace of Versailles. Louis the XV took them on a hunting expedition in the French country side. They built an alliance with the French and helped them fight off Spanish aggression from the south.
When the French-Indian war came the Osage people fought with the French against the American Colonists. They suffered heavy losses and with the wars end lost half of their territory to the American colonies.
By the 19th century their numbers were already dwindling, some XXXXX estimated. A wave of smallpox hit them and killed about half. The Osage continued periodic raids killing American settlers along the US’s western most frontier. St. Louis began to grow, and the Osage were too big a problem to ignore, but neither party was ready to go to all out war. So the U.S. government signed a treaty with the Osage for a cease in hostilities for the land of Missouri. The Osage were now considered an ally of the U.S.
the Osage turned their attention to the native tribes in their borderlands. They went to war with the Cherokee people, raiding their villages, killing their men and taking their women. The violence was so great that the Cherokee pleaded with the U.S. to help stop them. The U.S. intervened helping the Cherokee defeat a large Osage raiding party, building fort smith in Arkansas as a “DMZ” between the warring nations. The Osage were also required to cede more territory to the U.S.
This did not stop the Osage from waging war. They turned their attention to central Oklahoma. They captured a large band of Kiowa executing all of their prisoners and displaying their severed heads on top of cooking buckets. This greatly angered the Kiowa who allied with the Comanche to seek revenge. Resulting in a bloody tit for tat between the two sides.
When the civil war came the Osage people allied themselves with the confederacy, eager to beat back the U.S. union who they viewed as invaders. Part of the cost of defeat was their forced sale of land remaining in Kansas and forced into Oklahoma reservations. Where they live today. Unlike many tribes they maintain the mineral rights to their lands, owning them outright.
As a history fan, I love learning about the land I grew up in, and the people who also once lived there. But I feel no need to acknowledge their right of conquest as being somehow more noble or legitimate than the settlers who built the city I grew up in.
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