The Osage tribe is a Midwest Native American Tribe of the Great Plains. At the height of their power in the early 19th century, the Osage had become the dominant power in the region, feared by neighboring tribes. The tribe controlled the area between the Missouri and Red rivers, the Ozarks to the east and the foothills of the Wichita Mountains to the south. They depended on nomadic buffalo hunting and agriculture. In the 19th Century the tribe was relocated to the Northeastern area of present day Oklahoma where they acquired great wealth through oil that was discovered on their land. During the 1920s, they suffered manipulation and numerous murders by whites eager to take over their wealth.  The Osage uniquely painted thier eyelids and faces with red paint, and were once know to be one of the tallest tribes, some members standing as tall as 7 feet.