Osage Village

Black Dog, the chief the plaque names, was born about 1780 near St. Louis as Zhin-gawa-ca, Dark Eagle or Sacred Little One, and may have earned the name Manka-Chonka, Black Dog, fighting the Comanche. His Osage (Wazhazhe) village, Pasuga or Big Cedar, stood at present Claremore. He is credited with engineering the Black Dog Trail, an Osage road from east of present Baxter Springs, Kansas, to the Great Salt Plains, and George Catlin painted his portrait in 1834. He shared power with Claremore and Pawhuska and died at Claremore on March 24, 1848.

What the plaque says

Osage Village Occupied 1834 by Chief Black Dog's Osage band on buffalo hunt. Gen. Henry Leavenworth and First Dragoons, including officers Henry Dodge, S.W. Kearney, R.B. Mason, Jefferson Davis, Nathan Boone and noted artist, George Catlin, camped here June 26, 1834, on expedition west to secure peace with Plains tribes. Oklahoma Historical Society 1981

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Seminole Nation Museum — 21 mi
  A community museum in Wewoka, capital of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, telling the Seminole story from Florida to Indian Territory and the town that John Horse's people founded in 1849.

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• Sasakwa — 8.9 mi
• Edwards's Post — 13 mi
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