This Date in Native history: On November 10, 1808, the Osage Indians, the largest tribe of the Southern Sioux, agreed to abandon their lands in Missouri and Arkansas in exchange for minimal compensation and a smaller land base.
The agreement, known as the Osage Treaty of 1808, was the first treaty forged between the Osage Nation and the United States, said Andrew Gray, an Osage historian and professor of American Indian Studies at Pawnee Nation College. The tribe signed nine more treaties with the government before 1865, ceding their land in exchange for reservations first in Kansas and later in Oklahoma.
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