Osage Nation

Logan Pappenfort looking at objects in display case

Illinois passes updated law to repatriate Native American remains after years of neglect

Lilley Halloran

With the country’s second-largest collection of unrepatriated remains, Illinois has lagged far behind the nation. A new law has the Osage Nation hopeful there will soon be progress.

The site of the Big Mound Monument, center bottom, is pictured on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, next to Interstate 70 and the Stan Musial Veterans Memorial Bridge in north downtown St. Louis.

Culture & History

St. Louis was once Mound City. Its Native American residents still feel erased

Britny Cordera

Left beneath bridges and inside parking garages, Native American memorials in St. Louis draw advocates' ire.

Tower Grove Park officials revived a stream buried for more than 120 years, pictured on Wednesday, May, 18, 2022, to reduce flooding in the nearby Shaw neighborhood in south St. Louis.

Culture & History

Tower Grove Park’s restored stream teaches about the Osage Nation and reduces flooding

Britny Cordera

A stream revival project at Tower Grove Park helps people in the St. Louis region learn about the Osage Nation while keeping rain runoff from city sewers.

A family who farmed land in Lafayette County for centuries gave the 20 acres to the Native American Rights Fund, which earlier this month transferred the culturally significant property to the Osage Nation.

Culture & History

Osage Nation sees donation of 20 acres in Missouri after Picture Cave auction

Evie Hemphill

The Native American Rights Fund donated 20 acres of ancestral Osage lands in Lafayette County, Missouri, to the Osage Nation this month. “St. Louis on the Air” discusses the donation, and the sale of Picture Cave, with the director of the Osage Nation Historic Preservation Office.