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Osage Indians.
In 1825 a treaty was made at St. Louis by Gen. William Clark with the Great and Little Osage Indians for all their lands in Arkansas and elsewhere.
These lands were ceded to the United States in consideration of an annual payment of $7,000 for twenty years, and an immediate contribution of 600 head of cattle, 600 hogs, 1,000 fowls, 10 yoke of oxen, 6 carts, with farming uten-
Chief Osceola. sils, and other provisions similar to those in the treaty with the Kansas Indians.
It was also agreed to provide a fund for the support of schools for the benefit of the Osage children.
Provision was made for a missionary establishment; also for the United States to assume the payment of certain debts due from Osage chiefs to those of other tribes, and to deliver to the Osage villages, as soon as possible, $4,000 in merchandise and $2,600 in horses and their equipments.
In 1899 the Osage Indians numbered 1,761, and were located in Oklahoma.