osages in English
noun
1
a member of an American Indian people formerly inhabiting the Osage River valley in Missouri.
Above all, it would be the increasingly powerful Osages living to the west of the new city that determined the success of this enterprise.
2
the Siouan language of the Osage.
Currently, about twenty tribal members out of eighteen thousand can speak Osage fluently.
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1. Half-naked Osages with helmet-crests and eagle-quills, full-dressed in breech-clouts and leggings fringed with scalp-locks, the tallest men in North America, from their warm south hills, mingled with Pottawattamies of the Illinois, makers of fire, Shawnees with vermilion around their eyes, Sacs, of the red badge, and Foxes, Adroitest of thieves