Nihkdintanwan

Nikhdhitanwan was an Osage village at the junction of the Sac and Osage rivers in western Missouri. The river valleys lie between wooded hills and open prairie, within the homeland of the Osage people. Their communities kept fields near permanent villages and travelled to hunt across a much wider country. French writers learned of Osage settlements in the river basin during the seventeenth century; the river itself came to carry the people’s name.