The Osage have been relocated to a…
1838 CE
The city of Independence will later develop here.
The first Osage reservation is a fifty by one hundred and fifty-mile (two hundred and forty kilometer) strip.
The United Foreign Missionary Society has sent clergy to them, supported by the Presbyterian, Dutch Reformed, and Associate Reformed churches.
They have established the Union, Harmony, and Hopefield missions.
Cultural differences often lead to conflicts, as the Protestants try to impose their culture.
The Catholic Church has also sent missionaries.
The Osage are attracted to their sense of mystery and ritual, but feel the Catholics do not fully embrace the Osage sense of the spiritual incarnate in nature.