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To: Osage Orange
What does "Osage" mean?

I remember it from the eighties and the Wilson Goode/MOVE butchery:

http://www.google.com/search?q=osage+avenue+move

71 posted on 07/05/2004 7:00:57 AM PDT by SlickWillard
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To: SlickWillard
I believe it's a mangled interpretation ( by early traders, trappers, etc... ) of what the Osage Indians called themselves...which I think was something like "Wazhazhe"....which most translate to mean "The Children of the Middle Water"...

FRegards,

72 posted on 07/05/2004 7:33:56 AM PDT by Osage Orange (Hillary's heart is as dark as truck-stop coffee.............)
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