Osage News

2 weeks ago | osagenews.org | Allison Herrera

For the first time in its history, the Osage Minerals Council could manage production, permitting, and leasing of the Osage Mineral Estate – a shift that could occur within four months if approved. On Wednesday, June 4, Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear sent a letter to OMC Chairman Myron Red Eagle stating he has been in negotiations with the Department of the Interior for the OMC to fully assume self-governance functions.

3 weeks ago | osagenews.org | Benny Polacca

Osage citizen James Weigant is the winner of the 2025 Richard W. Helbock Prize for his article, “The Osage, Gray Horse, and Killers of the Flower Moon,” written and published in La Posta: The Journal of American Postal History. In a news release, La Posta Publications Publisher Peter Martin announced this year’s winners of the Helbock Prize, awarded to the best postal history articles appearing in the previous year’s La Posta issues, which are published quarterly.

4 weeks ago | osagenews.org | Allison Herrera

A lot has happened since the previous Osage Shareholders Meeting in mid-February. Just days before shareholders gathered on Zoom, Adam Trumbly, the Osage Agency Superintendent was let go from his job after the Department of Government Efficiency laid off thousands of probationary employees within the federal government. Trumbly’s job was one of them. He was eventually reinstated a little more than a month afterward and was on this quarterly meeting agenda.

1 month ago | osagenews.org | Allison Herrera

After nearly ten years of litigation, the Osage Minerals Council has prevailed in a lawsuit filed in 2016 that challenged the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of two leases on the Osage Minerals Estate. The case is also known as Hayes v. Haaland and was argued in the Northern District Court of Oklahoma. “The Hayes II case represented another attempt by surface owners to impede the abilityof Osage Headright Holders to benefit from their mineral interests.

1 month ago | osagenews.org | Shannon Duty

The Osage Nation Congressional Membership Committee has called a July 10 hearing into the allegations against Attorney General Clint Patterson. The allegations claim he illegally obtained an Osage CDIB for his former adopted daughter in 2004 and also illegally obtained an Osage Nation membership for her in 2010. Labeling the woman as “Jane Doe” to maintain confidentiality, Tulsa-based attorney Logan Hibbs of Crowe Dunlevy gave a report to the committee on May 27.