The Bigheart Times, Osage County's Weekly Newspaper

Osage Attorney General files ethics complaints against chief

Osage Nation Attorney General Jeff Jones filed a three-count civil ethics complaint against Principal Chief John D. Red Eagle on Wednesday, alleging that the chief demanded an investigation stop and that a certain employee “shall not be touched” by that inquiry. The complaint, the first ever filed against an elected official under the new tribal [...]

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Senators get involved in mineral affair

Three Washington D.C. heavyweights – Oklahoma’s two senators and a congressman – are weighing in on the proposed regulations governing the Osage mineral estate and asking the Bureau of Indian Affairs to hold off on approving the new rules until it hears from “all parties impacted” by them. Sens. Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, [...]

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Born and bred noodlers

Noodling: Anyone can try it, but there were some who were born to do it. Teams battled the rain and high water to wrestle giant bottom feeders to the surface with their bare hands in the second annual noodling contest at Hulah Lake on Saturday. Another noodling tournament will take place this Saturday at Kaw [...]

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Police chaplain’s son bound over for murder

An Osage County judge was on the verge of dismissing two felony cases – including a murder – because the District Attorney was tardy at two scheduled preliminary hearings on Monday. After waiting 15 minutes to start the hearings slated to start at 1 p.m., Special Judge Stuart Tate stood up and poked his head [...]

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Stabbed man bound over on assault charge

A man whose arrest started with him failing to use his turn signal and ended with him being stabbed multiple times by a Tulsa police officer was bound over for arraignment Monday on a felony charge that he assaulted the officer. Jeremy Franklin Thomas, 39, was hospitalized after the Jan. 13 encounter with Tulsa police [...]

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Local experts shed light on traditional Osage clothes and symbols

The annual Osage Nation In-Lon-Schka Dances are in full swing, having finished up the festivities in Hominy this past weekend. This tradition gives Osages a chance to get in touch with their history and heritage, wearing traditional clothes, eating traditional foods and performing traditional dances. Watching a traditional dance, to an outside observer, can almost [...]