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Electronic gambling machines only. The Big Spoon restaurant serves the expected soups, salads, sandwiches, and burgers for lunch and dinner, plus bar snacks, pizza, deep-fried catfish, fried chicken, and steaks.
The Osage Nation operates seven casinos in Oklahoma, under the name Osage Casinos. The 25th largest tribe in the United States, the people are based on their reservation encompassing Osage County, Oklahoma. It is larger than the U.S. states of Delaware and Rhode Island.
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Founded in 1938, the ONM is the oldest tribally owned museum in the United States. It is located in a very interesting building that used to be a boarding school. To some it also looks like a church, since the roof has a belfry.
Presenting Osage County's past, from the Osage Indian tribal affairs to everyday life and industry. Especially noteworthy is the monument to the first Boy Scout troop in America that was established here in Pawhuska in 1909, under the leadership of John Mitchell.
Recounting the cowboy movie star with lots of Western memorabilia.
A good place to go to get grounded on the background of the area and things to see. Also there is an Osage Nation gift shop and a veterans memorial and the Wazhazhe Heritage Walking Trail across the street.
Tallgrass is North America's largest remaining tract of tallgrass prairie ecosystem. What once covered much of the US and Central Canada, remains here to be seen in its most pristine condition in Oklahoma. Keep an eye out for the buffalo herds here as they are one of the nation's largest, and be warned, buffalo can sometimes charge unprovoked. So be sure to keep your distance, especially in the spring when there are lots of buffalo calves around.