Intapushe

Intapupshe was an Osage village on the upper Osage River in western Missouri, near the mouth of the Sac River. The surrounding country of prairie, wooded hills and river valleys formed part of the Osage homeland. Osage communities kept villages and fields along the river, and travelled seasonally to hunt bison and other game on the western plains. French accounts from the late seventeenth century place Osage villages on the river that came to bear their name, and later traders kept up relations with them, exchanging guns, cloth and metal tools for furs and horses.