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Yes. It's the Osage Indian semi-centennial celebration. Theirs a member on here names himself Osage express. He might respond
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By the way welcome to tn. Next time you post.. Give size,weight,metal or place the item next to a reference point like a coin. gl!
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As mentioned by Bryanhashemi, "It's the Osage Indian semi-centennial celebration", it's a medal to commemorate the semi-centennial of the signing of "Land Allotment Tribal Roll Mineral Reservation", which involved not only getting mineral rights to the Osage Reservation land, but also the closing of the Osage Indian Roll at the Osage Agency Campus, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, basically 1907 was when the Osage Nation came official, here's some info on this subject...
Osage Nation - Citizendia
"Reservation livingThe Nation later bought land in Oklahoma Osage Indian Reservation becoming the only nation to buy their own reservation. It comprises Osage County, Oklahoma, in the north-central portion of the state between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Ponca City, Oklahoma. The tribal leaders orchestrated a deal with the Federal government to move onto their own hunting ground on the prairie lands. The Osages had experience with the government and negotiated in 1907 to maintain mineral rights to their new homeland. They were unyielding and held up statehood for Oklahoma before signing an Allotment Act.Natural resources and headrights
Unlike most other tribes, the Osage unexpectedly stumbled upon a valuable natural resource on their reservation lands that allowed them to financially prosper. In 1894 large quantities of oil was discovered to lie deep beneath the vast prairie the tribe owned. Because of his recent discoveries of oil in southern Kansas, Henry Foster, a petroleum developer, approached the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to request that they allow him exclusive privileges to explore the Osage reservation for oil and natural gas. The BIA granted his request in 1896, with the stipulation Foster was to pay the Osage tribe at that time a 10% royalty on all sales of petroleum produced on the reservation. The rise in production over the next 10 years prompted Congress to pass the Osage Allotment Act on June 28, 1906. This act states all persons listed on tribal rolls prior to January 1, 1906 or born before July 1907 would be allocated a share of the reservation's subsurface natural resources, regardless of blood quantum.After mineral leases were auctioned by the tribe and explored, the oil business on the Osage reservation boomed. Overnight, Osage share holders became in the words of many the "richest people in the world". When royalties peaked in 1925, annual headright earnings were at $13,000. A family of 4 who were all on the allotment role would earn $52,800, comparable to approximately $600,000 in today's economy. [SUP][2][/SUP] Although the Osage Allotment Act protected the tribe's petroleum interests, the surface land was sold freely by any adult of a sound mind. In the time between 1907 and 1923, thousands of acres of land that was formerly restricted was sold or leased to non-Indian persons. Many Osage at this time did not understand the intricacies or value of these contacts and were promptly swindled by greedy businessmen.Another trick used by non-Indian Americans to cash in on the new found Osage wealth was to marry in to a family that had headrights. This tactic took a shocking and heinous turn in 1921 when a white man Ernest Burkhart married into an Alottee family and with the help of his uncle and brother plotted to murder those that would inherit the headrights. This became known as the Osage Indian Murders and went so far as to received attention from Federal law enforcement. This violence finally invoked Congress to pass legislation limiting inheritance of headrights to only those with Osage Indian blood and required those with no degree of Osage Indian blood to sell their shares to the tribe. Today, headrights have become split up among the Osage descendants of those who originally possessed them, although it is estimated that 25% of headrights are owned by non Osage people. [SUP][3][/SUP] The social consequences of the oil boom for the Osage Nation have been depicted in John Joseph Mathews' semi-autobiographical novelSundown (1934)."
OSAGE NATION
"1957
· June 15 – Semi-Centennial Celebration commemorating the closing of the Osage Indian Roll at the Osage Agency Campus, Pawhuska, Oklahoma."
Some info on the specs. of the medal.
B Medal, United States, Oklahoma. 1957.165.1: American Numismatic Society Collection Database
B Medal, United States, Oklahoma. 1957.165.1
Obverse:bust: OSAGE INDIAN 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION|1907-1957|PAUL PITTS
Reverse:the seal of the Osage Nation: LAND ALLOTMENT TRIBAL ROLL MINERAL RESERVATION|OSAGE NATION|1907-1957
Weight:10.813 grams
Measurements:33 mm
Department:Medal
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Osage Nation - Citizendia
"Reservation livingThe Nation later bought land in Oklahoma Osage Indian Reservation becoming the only nation to buy their own reservation. It comprises Osage County, Oklahoma, in the north-central portion of the state between Tulsa, Oklahoma and Ponca City, Oklahoma. The tribal leaders orchestrated a deal with the Federal government to move onto their own hunting ground on the prairie lands. The Osages had experience with the government and negotiated in 1907 to maintain mineral rights to their new homeland. They were unyielding and held up statehood for Oklahoma before signing an Allotment Act.Natural resources and headrights
Unlike most other tribes, the Osage unexpectedly stumbled upon a valuable natural resource on their reservation lands that allowed them to financially prosper. In 1894 large quantities of oil was discovered to lie deep beneath the vast prairie the tribe owned. Because of his recent discoveries of oil in southern Kansas, Henry Foster, a petroleum developer, approached the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to request that they allow him exclusive privileges to explore the Osage reservation for oil and natural gas. The BIA granted his request in 1896, with the stipulation Foster was to pay the Osage tribe at that time a 10% royalty on all sales of petroleum produced on the reservation. The rise in production over the next 10 years prompted Congress to pass the Osage Allotment Act on June 28, 1906. This act states all persons listed on tribal rolls prior to January 1, 1906 or born before July 1907 would be allocated a share of the reservation's subsurface natural resources, regardless of blood quantum.After mineral leases were auctioned by the tribe and explored, the oil business on the Osage reservation boomed. Overnight, Osage share holders became in the words of many the "richest people in the world". When royalties peaked in 1925, annual headright earnings were at $13,000. A family of 4 who were all on the allotment role would earn $52,800, comparable to approximately $600,000 in today's economy. [SUP][2][/SUP] Although the Osage Allotment Act protected the tribe's petroleum interests, the surface land was sold freely by any adult of a sound mind. In the time between 1907 and 1923, thousands of acres of land that was formerly restricted was sold or leased to non-Indian persons. Many Osage at this time did not understand the intricacies or value of these contacts and were promptly swindled by greedy businessmen.Another trick used by non-Indian Americans to cash in on the new found Osage wealth was to marry in to a family that had headrights. This tactic took a shocking and heinous turn in 1921 when a white man Ernest Burkhart married into an Alottee family and with the help of his uncle and brother plotted to murder those that would inherit the headrights. This became known as the Osage Indian Murders and went so far as to received attention from Federal law enforcement. This violence finally invoked Congress to pass legislation limiting inheritance of headrights to only those with Osage Indian blood and required those with no degree of Osage Indian blood to sell their shares to the tribe. Today, headrights have become split up among the Osage descendants of those who originally possessed them, although it is estimated that 25% of headrights are owned by non Osage people. [SUP][3][/SUP] The social consequences of the oil boom for the Osage Nation have been depicted in John Joseph Mathews' semi-autobiographical novelSundown (1934)."
OSAGE NATION
"1957
· June 15 – Semi-Centennial Celebration commemorating the closing of the Osage Indian Roll at the Osage Agency Campus, Pawhuska, Oklahoma."
Some info on the specs. of the medal.
B Medal, United States, Oklahoma. 1957.165.1: American Numismatic Society Collection Database
B Medal, United States, Oklahoma. 1957.165.1
Obverse:bust: OSAGE INDIAN 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION|1907-1957|PAUL PITTS
Reverse:the seal of the Osage Nation: LAND ALLOTMENT TRIBAL ROLL MINERAL RESERVATION|OSAGE NATION|1907-1957
Weight:10.813 grams
Measurements:33 mm
Department:Medal
Previous Collection(s):
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What more could I add? ...Good going ....Osage
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