History of Ranching the Osage

History of Ranching the Osage
Author: Les Warehime
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Total Pages: 270
Release: 2000
Genre: History
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In 1881, the Osage established their own tribal government. In 1883, the tribal council offered some of the reservation land for lease to cattle ranchers. The cattle industry grew in the early 1900's, when the federal government took over approval and oversight of leasing. Leasing continued after the reservations lands were allotted to individual Indians and in 1910, the U.S. Department of the Interior revised their regulations so that some mixed and full-blood Osages could lease their lands and the lands of their minor children without the supervision of the superintendent of the Osage (BIA) agency.