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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Q8_osage-sites-in-the-area_Harwood-MO.html
The small area (about 12 by 10 miles) where Osage Village State Historic Site is located, contains almost all of the Osage sites and early French and American sites relating to the Osage in Missouri.
1. Osage Village SiteThe site on which you a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Q4_archaeology_Harwood-MO.html
The main source for information about the Osage Indians' daily life is in the ground beneath us. Like pages of a book, archaeology can reveal stories about who the people were and how they lived.
Information is revealed not only by the artifact…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Q2_changing-life-styles_Harwood-MO.html
American Attitudes Toward The OsageIn March 1804, the United States took possession of the Louisiana Territory, almost doubling the size of the United States. This provided growing space for an expanding population. The Lewis and Clark expedition …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15PP_the-osage-and-the-fur-trade_Harwood-MO.html
Hunting and furs were already important factors in the Osage way of life and Europeans capitalized on this. By trading furs for articles manufactured by Europeans, both groups got something they wanted. While the Indians got kettles, axes, hoes, k…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15PO_encounter-with-europeans-the-change-begins_Harwood-MO.html
Marquette and JolietThe first reference to the Osage Indians was in 1673 when Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette descended the Mississippi River from the Great Lakes and stopped at the mouth of the Missouri River. They collected information…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRFI_the-osage-indians_Harwood-MO.html
The small hill to your right was once the site of an Osage Indian village. More than 300 years ago, this site would have been covered with large, rectangular homes for a tribe of people who have become a symbol of history on the prairie.
This s…