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Osage County is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 47,472.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/40/40113.html )〕 Its county seat is Pawhuska.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Osage County is included in the Tulsa, OK Metropolitan Statistical Area. Coterminous with the Osage Indian Reservation, it is the home of the federally recognized Osage Nation. ==History== By the 17th century, the Osage and other Siouan tribes had been forced to move west from the Ohio Valley across the Mississippi River. The Osage became established as a powerful nation in the areas of present-day Missouri and Arkansas between the Missouri River and Red rivers, as well as extending to the west. By 1760, they had increased their range to include the present Osage County. Historically one of the most powerful Great Plains tribes, their numbers were reduced by infectious disease and warfare after encounter with Europeans. In 1825, they ceded their claim to the land in present-day Oklahoma to the United States government, which included it in a "perpetual outlet to the west given to the Cherokee Nation by the Treaty of New Echota" in 1835. This treaty was to accomplish Cherokee removal to the Indian Territory. During the American Civil War, on December 26, 1861, a band of pro-Union Creek and Seminole fought with a Confederate Army unit at the Battle of Chustenahlah〔(On this date in Civil War history: December 26, 1861 - Battle of Chustenahlah (150th Anniversary) )〕 on Bird Creek, near the present town of Skiatook.〔 Generally the Five Civilized Tribes were allied with the Confederacy. In 1870, the Osage finally prepared for removal from Kansas, after having negotiated payment for their land. They purchased of their former territory in present-day Oklahoma from the Cherokee. By owning it, they had a stronger position in relation to the US government than did other tribes.〔 The Osage Agency was established in 1872 at Deep Ford, later renamed as Pawhuska. It was designated as the county seat when Oklahoma was admitted as a state. The other chief settlements in the 1870s were Hominy and Fairfax; each of the three was settled by a major Osage band.〔Dennis McAuliffe (1994), ((1994), ''Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation'' ), Council Oak Books, p. 43 ISBN 978-1-57178-083-6〕 In 1875 the US designated their land as the Osage Reservation. Because the tribe owned the land directly, they retained more control over their affairs than did tribes who only had rights to land held "in trust" by the United States government.〔 This reservation became part of the Oklahoma Territory under the Oklahoma Organic Act of 1890. It became a semi-autonomous district by the Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906, and Osage County at the time of Oklahoma Statehood in 1907.〔( Jon D. May, "Osage County", ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''. ) Retrieved September 25, 2011.〕 At that time, there were 2,229 registered Osage members.〔 As owners, the Osage retained the communal mineral rights to their reservation lands. In October 1897, the Phoenix Oil Company drilled the first successful oil well on the Osage reservation and Oklahoma Territory. It was located along Butler Creek. In 1901, Phoenix Oil and Osage Oil companies combined their assets to form the Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Company (ITIO). It arranged with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to sub-lease the eastern part of the Osage reservation until 1916. When ITIO's lease expired, the United States government supervised the public auctioning of leases for tracts.〔 All subsurface minerals, including oil, are owned by the Osage Nation and held in trust for them by the Federal Government. Each mineral lease was negotiated by the Osage National Council and approved by the U. S. Secretary of the Interior.〔 While the government forced allotment of lands and distribution of plots to tribal members for farming in the early 20th century, the tribe continued to hold their "surplus" land after the distribution.〔 Other tribes were forced to give up such "surplus" and allow for sales to non-Indians. The Osage distributed their surplus communal land to tribal members, so that in 1906 each Osage was given a total of , nearly four times the amount that other Indian households received in the allotment process. Later the enrolled Osage and their descendants received oil and other mineral royalties as payments based on these "headrights".〔 (詳細はOsage Indian murders. Because of the great wealth being generated by oil, an estimated 60 tribal members were killed as whites tried to gain their headrights, royalties or land. The FBI believed that several white husbands of Osage women had committed or ordered their murders.〔(Dennis McAuliffe (1994), ''Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation'' ), Council Oak Books ISBN 978-1-57178-083-6〕 Other Osage were tricked out of their legal rights by unscrupulous white opportunists, in some cases attorneys or businessmen appointed by local courts as "guardians" to the Osage, under the requirements of a 1921 law Congress intended to be for their protection, but which put them more at risk. The Osage called in the FBI to help solve several murders in the Kyle family, and three men were convicted and sentenced. But, many murders were never solved. To try to protect the Osage, Congress passed a law in 1925 prohibiting the inheritance of headrights by persons who were not at least half Osage in ancestry.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Osage County, Oklahoma」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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