How did the Cherokee and Osage come into conflict?

Answer 1

The Americans, greedy for the lands in the east, pushed the tribes such as the Cherokee to the west. The majority of these Cherokees were deemed "old settlers." These were the Cherokees who decided it would be best to move and to just get away from the Americans. Others wanted to stay and not remove. However, the Cherokees who did move to the west were moving to another territory already claimed by the Osages. The Osage did their best in guarding their lands from white and Indians alike when it came to trespassers taking food resources from their area. Hunting parties would usually be attacked by Osage war parties, as well as fur trappers and Euro-American hunters and trappers. The Cherokee adopted a lot of the the "Manifest Destiny" talk of the Americans, claiming they needed these lands because they were "civilized" and the Osage were "savage." They also attempted to Christianize Osages, as well as other western Indians. So it basically came down to one group of people attempting to take over the land of another people, except in this case, the Cherokee kind of acted as "sub-colonizers," with their American influenced ideologies and talk "savage" versus "civilized."