Announcements

OSAGE GROUP — May 6, 2026. Osage Media today announced that principal photography on Episode I of the HerStory documentary series has concluded. The episode, titled La Panthère Noire, is the first installment of a long-running series on the women whose witness was decisive in the histories of their nations.

Filming took place across three months at archival and family locations under the supervision of editorial leads from the Osage Institute and the CYRUS NGO secretariat. Post-production runs through May. The trailer publishes on June 7, 2026 — the eighty-fourth anniversary of Maj. Gen. Tinker’s loss at Midway, a date the two houses have chosen to share as the public anchor of the series.

The full episode releases later in 2026. Future episodes in development cover Maria Tallchief, Mollie Burkhart Kyle, and the Tinker women.

OSAGE GROUP — April 22, 2026. Osage Institute today opened applications for its inaugural Fellows program for the 2026–2027 academic year. Up to twelve fellows will be admitted across three research streams: Wazhazhe Studies, Sovereign Systems, and Air Power and the Pacific.

Fellowships are residential for a portion of the year and remote-with-quarterly-convening for the remainder. Stipends cover full living costs; output is a working paper or monograph subject to external review. The Institute publishes in LaTeX and does not ghost-write.

Applications close June 30. Letters of inquiry to [email protected].

OSAGE GROUP — April 8, 2026. Osage Foundation today published the 2026 Request for Proposals for the Osage Heritage Fund. The Fund makes capital grants to historical- preservation projects on the Osage Reservation — physical sites, oral histories, photographic and film archives.

Funding is restricted to projects within the historical Osage reservation as constituted in 1872, with priority to work coordinated with the Osage Nation, the Osage Nation Museum, and the four traditional districts. Proposals are due July 15; awards announced in October. RFP at osage.foundation.

OSAGE GROUP — March 25, 2026. The Osage Foundation today announced its first-half 2026 grant slate for the Wazhazhe Archive program. Awards in this cycle support the digitization of language materials, the recording of elder oral histories, and capital improvements to archival infrastructure.

The Wazhazhe Archive is the Foundation’s longest-running program, operating in cooperation with the Osage Nation Museum (founded 1938) and academic linguists. The Osage script encoded in Unicode 9.0 (U+104B0–U+104FF) and the keyboards and fonts that render it — including the Wazhazhe ornament rendered on ecosystem properties — rest on more than a decade of community and academic work that the Archive program intends to underwrite for years to come.

Specific awardees and amounts are published in the Foundation’s annual report.

OSAGE GROUP — March 18, 2026. The Osage Network testnet, the public test deployment of the Osage ecosystem settlement layer, has completed initial sync. The public block explorer is live at explorer.test.osage.network with REST and GraphQL endpoints.

Osage Network is a sovereign L1/L2 chain aligned with the Lux consensus family. The chain anchors identity attestations from Osage ID, tokenized assets including GOLD-O, and notarized records for ecosystem charter documents.

Mainnet activation is scheduled for late 2026 following completion of independent audit and validator-set finalization. Documentation and protocol references are at docs.osage.network.

OSAGE GROUP — March 4, 2026. Osage Media, the journalism and archival arm of the Osage ecosystem, today announced the launch of HerStory, a long-running documentary series on the women whose witness was decisive — and routinely written out — in the histories of their nations.

The first episode, produced in partnership with the Cyrus / Pars Foundation, is titled La Panthère Noire and treats the life of HIH Princess Ashraf Pahlavi (1919–2016) — twin sister of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who in July 1946 traveled to Moscow and faced Joseph Stalin at the Kremlin in defense of Iranian sovereignty.

Future episodes in development include features on Maria Tallchief, Mollie Burkhart Kyle, and the Tinker women. The series is published at osage.media.

OSAGE GROUP — March 4, 2026. The Osage Foundation today opened the inaugural cycle of the Tinker Scholars, an annual scholarship program for Native American students entering the United States service academies, ROTC programs, or undergraduate programs in aeronautics, engineering, and applied sciences. The program is named in honor of the late Chairman Emeritus, Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker.

Application details and eligibility are published at osage.foundation.

OSAGE GROUP — March 4, 2026. Osage Group, the holding company coordinating the pillars of the Wah-Zha-Zhe diaspora ecosystem, today announced that H. “Smoke” Dupont serves as Chief Executive Officer. The CEO reports to the board and operates on standing terms. The Office of the CEO coordinates Capital, Tech, Industries, Farm, Foundation, NGO, Institute, and Family.

The Group’s Chairman Emeritus seat is held permanently in memoriam for Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942) and is never refilled. The active board: H. “Smoke” Dupont (Chief Executive Officer), HRH Cyrus Pahlavi (standing partnership), Prof. Amii Omara-Otunnu (UNESCO Chair, University of Connecticut), and Z. Kelling (Director · Technology, Science, R&D). The CEO is the operating head of the Group; the board governs.