Osage

Osage can also refer to:

  • The Osage language, a Siouan language traditionally spoken by the Osage Nation
  • Osage-orange, Maclura pomifera, a tree of the mulberry family
  • Osage Indian murders (1921–1925), a group of murders that took place on the Osage Indian Reservation as whites tried to get control of headrights to oil royalties
  • The Osage River, a tributary of the Missouri River, entirely contained in Missouri, United States
  • The Hughes TH-55 Osage U.S. Army helicopter
  • USS Osage (1863)
  • USS Osage (LSV-3)

Osage is a part of many placenames in the United States, including:

  • Osage, Iowa
  • Osage, New Jersey
  • Osage, Oklahoma (also known as Osage City, Oklahoma)
  • Osage, West Virginia (near Morgantown, West Virginia)
  • Osage, Wyoming
  • Osage Beach, Missouri
  • Osage City, Kansas
  • Osage County, Kansas
  • Osage County, Missouri
  • Osage County, Oklahoma, home of the Osage Indian Reservation
  • Osage Township, LaSalle County, Illinois
  • Osage Township, Becker County, Minnesota
  • Fort Osage (Independence, Missouri), a United States Army base built in 1808

Famous quotes containing the word osage:

    “Fellow citizens, I have been called upon to conduct this opening meeting of the Osage First Methodist-Episcopalian-Presbyterian-Congregational-Baptist-Catholic-Unitarian-Hebrew Church.”
    —Howard Estabrook (1884–1978)