Pahatsi

Pahatsi is the name of the Great Osage, one of the principal divisions of the Osage people. Their villages stood in the Osage River country of western Missouri, among the hills and prairie south of the Missouri River. The Great Osage cultivated crops near their settlements and travelled widely to hunt bison and other game.

In 1673 Jacques Marquette learned of the Osage and placed their villages on a map near the river later named for them. French traders subsequently established ties with the nation. Around 1802 a substantial part of the Great Osage followed the leader Big Track south toward the Arkansas River, forming a separate division there. The communities remaining on the Osage continued to occupy their villages as American influence expanded up the Missouri.