Tanwakanwakaghe

Tanwakanwakaghe was an Osage village recorded near the junction of the Grand and Osage rivers in Missouri. The Osage lived in permanent villages in the river country south of the Missouri, combining cultivation with hunting on the plains and in the wooded hills. Their settlements and hunting grounds formed part of a broad network of kinship, trade and diplomacy. French travellers learned of Osage villages on the river in the seventeenth century, and trade later brought the nation into closer contact with colonial posts.