Who we are

At a glance

Osage is the standing global arm of the Wah-Zha-Zhe diaspora. We coordinate the public-facing work of the diaspora’s civic, capital, and cultural entities across roughly forty domains; we steward the standing observances and the standing partnerships; and we maintain the international register that binds the descendants of Pawhuska to the obligations they carry.

• Headquartered — Pawhuska, Oklahoma
• Founded — 2026
• Chairman Emeritus — Maj. Gen. C. L. Tinker (in memoriam)
• Chairman of the Board — Chief Smoke Hunter DuPont
• Board — Hunter DuPont · HRH Cyrus Pahlavi · Sheikh Mansour Al Fahim · Zach Kelling · Oleg
• Native script identity — 𐓏𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟
• Footprint — 50 U.S. states · 11 countries
• Sister entities — Foundation, NGO, Institute, Network
• Standing partnerships — Smoke Clan, CYRUS / Pahlavi (2026)

A federally recognised sovereign tribal government, the Osage Nation, exists separately and speaks for itself at osagenation-nsn.gov. Osage is not the Nation.

At the core

One sentence holds this house together: what is sacred is not to scatter. The 1907 Allotment Act allotted the surface of Osage land to individuals; it left the mineral estate beneath the surface in common, held by all the people for as long as they should be a people. The diaspora carries the same instinct outward: to keep what is inherited together, across generations, across continents.

The standing observances we keep: the In-lon-shka, in cooperation with the Osage Nation; Tinker Day on 7 June, in memory of Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker; the annual Brothers Forum in September; and the Sacred Fire, kept by the Office of Chief Smoke Hunter DuPont under the standing covenant published at osage.group/partnerships.

Our purpose and values

Our purpose is to keep the Wah-Zha-Zhe inheritance intact and to spend it in service of the people. Our values are the values of the people we came from, restated in the language of a corporate house so they may be enforced internally and recognised externally.

• Patience. We do not chase quarters. The horizon is the next generation.
• Sovereignty. The Osage Nation is sovereign. Every tribal nation we work alongside is sovereign. We are not.
• Ceremonial protocol. Songs, dances, regalia, and sacred materials are not commodities. They belong to the people who hold them; we never license, depict, or commercialise them without consent.
• Perpetual confidentiality. Sacred materials disclosed to us are held in confidence forever, without exception.
• Forwards only. No backwards-compatibility shims; no deprecated-but-tolerated tokens; no half-finished work.

Our code of conduct

Officers, directors, employees, contractors, and partners of Osage and its sister entities are bound by a common code:

• No bribery, kickback, or facilitation payment of any kind, in any jurisdiction.
• No discrimination on the basis of nation, tribe, race, gender, religion, or any protected characteristic.
• No representation that any officer of Osage speaks for the Osage Nation, the Smoke Clan, the Office of the Keeper of the Sacred Fire, or any other sovereign or hereditary office to which they do not personally hold appointment.
• No depiction or commercial use of ceremonial regalia, songs, dances, or sacred materials.
• No conflict of interest left undisclosed; standing register held by the Audit Committee.
• No use of plaintext credentials. Secrets reside in Hanzo KMS at kms.osage.id.

Material breaches of this code are grounds for immediate termination of engagement and, where appropriate, referral to the relevant authority.

Our policies

The standing policies of Osage and its sister entities. Each is held in writing, reviewed annually by the Audit Committee, and applied without exception.

• Confidentiality. Three-tier — ordinary, commercial, and ceremonial. Ceremonial materials are held in perpetuity.
• Conflicts of interest. Annual disclosure for officers and directors; standing recusal for any matter implicating a personal interest.
• Brand and sovereignty. Diaspora properties never depict the Osage Nation seal, the Smoke Clan seal, or any other sovereign mark. Properties express kinship through the Wazhazhe wordmark only.
• Procurement. Indigenous-owned businesses receive standing preference where technical and commercial requirements are equally met. See /suppliers.
• Whistle-blowing. Any party may raise concerns directly to the Audit Committee at [email protected]; retaliation is grounds for termination.
• Data handling. Customer and partner data resides on owned infrastructure. Secrets in KMS only. No third-party advertising trackers anywhere in the ecosystem.
• Audit. Annual independent audit; report posted by 1 August each year.

Our business model and strategy

Osage operates as the standing coordinating body of a small group of mature, slow-moving operating entities and standing civic programmes. Value is generated by patient, concentrated stewardship across decades. The diaspora’s capital is allocated by Osage Capital and pooled in Osage Fund; philanthropy flows through the Osage Foundation; international civic work proceeds through the Osage NGO; the historical record is held by the Osage Institute.

Strategy through 2030 holds three priorities, in order:

• Keep the record intact. Continued long-running grants for the Wazhazhe Archive; capital for the Osage Nation Museum and the Daposka Ahnkodapi language school; the Pawhuska Heritage Fund.
• Educate the next generation. Tinker Scholars and the Institute Fellows programme; apprenticeships across the operating companies; partnerships with the U.S. service academies.
• Hold what is inherited together. Long-horizon stewardship of family and partner-family capital; standing partnerships with allied houses; civic infrastructure that does not depend on any one government’s continued favour.

Our history

The dates that organise this house. They are the people’s dates first, and ours by descent.

• 1808 — Treaty of Fort Clark; the first cession.
• 1872 — The Osage purchase their own reservation in Indian Territory — a feat almost unique among Native nations.
• 1894 — Oil discovered beneath Osage land.
• 1907 — Allotment Act. Surface allotted; the mineral estate kept in common.
• 1921–1925 — The Reign of Terror. The first murder investigation in the history of the Bureau of Investigation.
• 1942 — Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker, Wah-Zha-Zhe of Pawhuska, lost at sea near Midway, leading the long-range air mission he had himself planned.
• 1942 — Tinker Field renamed in his memory; today Tinker Air Force Base, the largest single-site employer in the State of Oklahoma.
• 2006 — Osage Nation ratifies the present constitution; one citizen, one vote.
• 2011 — The United States settles outstanding trust-fund litigation with the Nation for $380 million.
• 2026 — The diaspora organises. Osage is constituted as a coordinating body; Osage Group as the holding company; the standing partnership with the Office of the Keeper of the Sacred Fire is signed; the standing partnership with the Cyrus / Pahlavi Ecosystem is signed.

Leadership

Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker

Chairman Emeritus · 1887–1942 · in memoriam

Wah-Zha-Zhe of Pawhuska. The first Native American to attain the rank of Major General in the history of the United States Army, and the first U.S. Army general officer killed in combat in the Second World War. The Chairman Emeritus seat is held permanently in His honour and is never refilled. See osage.memorial.

Chief Smoke Hunter DuPont

Director · Keeper of the Sacred Fire

Of the Smoke Clan of the Osage Nation. Keeper of the Sacred Fire in the present generation. Director with primary responsibility for the Tribal Affairs Committee, ceremonial protocol, and the standing covenant between the Group and the Office of the Keeper of the Sacred Fire (2026).

His Royal Highness Cyrus Pahlavi

Director · Founding Chair, MIGA DAO

Head of the House of Pahlavi in His generation; grandson of Her Imperial Highness Princess Ashraf Pahlavi (La Panthère Noire) and great-grandson of Her Majesty Queen Mother Tadj~ol-Molouk. Director with oversight of the diaspora portfolio and of the cross-ecosystem partnership between Osage Group and the CYRUS / Pahlavi Ecosystem (2026).

The Osage Group Board carries the same composition and is published at osage.group/board.

Governance

• Charter. Osage operates under a written charter held by the Chairman’s office and reviewed annually.
• Audit Committee. Three-member committee, including one independent director, reporting annually on the operations of every sister entity within the standing register.
• Council of the Sacred Fire. Quarterly working committee with the Office of Chief Smoke Hunter DuPont; resolves matters of clan relation and ceremonial protocol that do not require escalation. Constituted by the standing covenant with the Office of the Keeper of the Sacred Fire (2026).
• Joint Coordinating Committee. Quarterly committee with the CYRUS / Pahlavi Ecosystem under the 2026 standing partnership; reviews the four working areas (diaspora capital, civic record, sovereign infrastructure, mutual recognition).
• Sovereignty boundary. No officer or director of Osage may represent the Osage Nation or any other sovereign government. Coordination with the Nation, where it occurs, proceeds through the Nation’s own institutions on the Nation’s own terms.

Transparency

Osage publishes the following annually, by 1 August of the following year:

• Audited financial statements of Osage and each sister entity.
• Foundation grant slate (Wazhazhe Archive, Tinker Scholars, Pawhuska Heritage Fund) and Form 990.
• Institute Fellows roster and forthcoming working-paper series.
• NGO international-programme report and audit.
• Standing partnership instruments. The Smoke Clan MOU and the Cyrus / Pahlavi MOU are published in working-draft form at osage.group/partnerships; final executed copies are held by the parties and the registrar.
• Material press releases, archived in full and never silently edited at osage.group/press.

Inquiries from journalists, scholars, and counterparties: [email protected].