1808

• November 10 – Treaty of 1808 concluded on the right bank of the Missouri River, involving cessation of land belonging to the Great and Little Osage Indians to the Federal Government.  The land was located in the present states of Arkansas (1/2 of the state, totaling 26,000 sq. mi. or 16.64 million acres) and Missouri (7/8 of the state, totaling 56,000 sq. mi. or 35.84 million acres).  Osages received as consideration for the cession of over 50 million acres of land under the terms of this Treaty, the sum of $1,200 in cash and an annuity of $1,500 in merchandise and a payment to certain citizens of the United States, a sum not exceeding $5,000 as compensation for property allegedly stolen or destroyed by lawless members of the Osage Tribe of Indians.  Clermont Band does not agree to treaty.

1815

• November – U. S. wishes to buy some territory north of the Arkansas River (in present-day Oklahoma and Arkansas).

1829

• November – Under Charles X, three Osage Tribal Indians (Small-chief, Woman-Falcon and Large-Soldier) arrives exhausted at Montauban, France.  For two years they had wandered through Europe and did not know how to return to where they came from.  The generosity of the Montauban people helped them.

1849

• November 23 – Letter of citation to War-Sha-Wa-Ta-Ga on the presentation of a medal in recognition of good behavior, written by Orlando Brown, Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

1871

• November 3 – Acting Commissioner Clum recommends that immediate measures be taken to remedy the state of affairs, likely to be productive of the results mentioned in Hoag’s letter of October 26; Two alternatives are likely:  First, to have one or more members of the Board of Indian Commissioners, or some other suitable person, proceed to the Cherokee country to negotiate with the proper authorities of the Cherokee nation for the retention upon reasonable terms, by the Osage, of that portion of the tract of country supposed to have been included within the limits of the reservation set apart for them, but which was found actually to be east of the 96^th meridian.  Second, to provide a new reservation for the Osages in the portion of the Cherokee territory bordering upon the Creek country and lying to the west of the 96^th meridian.  He stated that the latter alternative would by no means be entirely satisfactory to the Osages and should only be entertained after every effort had been made for the success of the first proposition without avail.
• November 4 – Secretary Delano approves suggestions embraced in the first alternative set forth by Clum, and designates Thomas Wistar and John B. Garrett of Philadelphia, and George Howland of New Bedford, MA, as a commission to open negotiations with the Cherokees accordingly.  Delano states that if the commission should not succeed in negotiating with them for the continued possession by the Osages, of the lands they occupied, then, he desires that the attention of the commission be directed to the necessity of their making an examination of the country for the purpose of selecting a new reservation for the Osages.  Instructions were promptly issued to the commission stating that in the second alternative they should examine the Cherokee country west of the 96^th meridian.  Agent Gibson was instructed to remain on the reservation as then located with the Indians in his charge, until the matter regarding the possession of the strip of land in question should finally settled.

1876

• November 15 – Arkansas City Traveler reports through “Superintendents and Agents Report”, among other tribes, the population of Osages are 2,679 (1,379 males and 1,282 females); 174 Osages live in houses and…sold $5,000 worth of robes last year; Osages own 12,000 ponies, 100 mules, 600 head of cattle and 1,500 head of hogs; Of the population only 25 labor in civilized pursuits, 25 live by hunting, 244 wear citizen’s clothes, 50 adults and 100 youths can read and 15 of those have learned this year, during the nine months of school.  The school was maintained solely by their own funds at a cost of $7,000 and a donation from Orthodox churches and private parties to the amount of $300.  Where the children come to school, they are clothed and fed.
• November 21 – (Major General) Clarence Tinker born at Elgin, KS

1891

• November – Post office at Embree established (through March 1892); located 6 miles west of Ramona on the Osage county line

1902

• November 21 – Bank of Hominy founded with a capital of $5,000; bank liquidated on September 30, 1905.

1906

• November – Post office at Osage established; located 5 miles east of Cleveland

1907

• November 16 – Osage Reservation was incorporated as the State of Oklahoma’s (Cherokee for “Land of the Red Man”) largest county; becomes the State’s most prolific oil producing area, and most renowned cattle grazing areas in the United States

1923

• November – Bowring post office established; located 18 miles west of Pawhuska; Caney Township; named for two ranches, Mart Bowhan and Richard Woodring

1924

• November 11 - 18 oil leases sold for more than $1 million

2004

• November 19 – The U.S. Senate unanimously passed Osage sovereignty legislation that reaffirms the inherent sovereign rights of the Osage Tribe to determine its own membership and form of government (HR 2912).  Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK), a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, championed the passage of the Osage legislation through the Committee, then the full Senate.

2005

2007

• October 16-November 10 – Second round of Strategic Planning Summit meetings at locations around the United States discuss the results of surveys.

2008

• November – Announcement of second record payment in a row to annuitants for December, 2008 at $11,600 per headright, eclipsing September's payment of $11,245.

 

75 Years Ago...

 

1934

·     The Osage Council asks Congress to enact special legislation making the sale of alcohol in Osage County illegal.  Congress declines.  Chief Fred Lookout works with full-blood and mixed-blood Osages to redefine the meaning of full-blood to include some mixed-blood Osages, which helps him win the election for principal chief.  Harry Kohpay is re-elected as Assistant Principal Chief and John Joseph Mathews elected to the Osage Council.  Lookout and Mathews both supported the Indian Reorganization Act, but many Indians were suspicious of the legislation; and the Oklahoma tribes were not included in the Act when it was signed into law this year.

 

1909

·        Individual Headright payments start to Osage Original Allottees

 

·        Osage agent calls on federal troops to remove settlers illegally "squatting" on the Osage reservation

175 Years Ago…

 

1834

·        Osage living along the Arkansas and Neosho Rivers.  Clermont, son of Claremore, is the principal chief of the Osage.

200 Years Ago…

 

1809

·         Clermont Band finally agrees to Treaty of 1808