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Usage examples of osage.

Good Eagle was not registered on either side of her family, Osage or Cherokee, but she and her family had more right to call themselves Native American than plenty who were registered and could speak of no more than a single grandparent of the full blood.

There was nothing to show that they were Osage and Cherokee except their name.

But the other is Osage, he wants the fight too, but he wants it to get power over some of the young hotheads.

She counted rapidly to ten in Osage, then in Cherokee for good measure.

You just might take a notion to recall the days when the Osage and your people were something less than brothers.

The neighborhood kids learned Osage legendsbut the lessons were to respect and protect nature.

That was not the original way of the Osage, who had been more apt to construct deeper and more complicated layers of ritual around the core of their traditions when those traditions failed them.

He seldom let them into the house in the morning, teaching them instead the Osage games his father had taught him, and running the fat of too much television watching off them.

These were kids raised in air conditioning, born to parents with health insurance, not tough little Osage brats who never saw a doctor and ran around mostly naked in the Oklahoma heat.

There was a site not that far from her home in Claremore where that had happened, where a band of mixed Heavy Eyebrows scum, renegade Cherokee, and rejects from other tribes had overrun an Osage village, killing, torturing, and raping the women, old men, and children left behind.

Ware was Osage, although his family had long since adopted Christianity.

The end of the great buffalo herds on which the Osage way of life depended.

At that time, the Heavy Eyebrows came as admiring postulants, seeking furs and protection from the tall Osage warriors.

But Watches-Over-The-Land had seen that this would not serve, and had charged his family with finding new ways, borrowing from other Peoples, but keeping the Osage ways as the center.

In the past, the evil one had worked against the Osage and with the whites, even if the whites had not been aware of it.