Also known as the Osage Treaty, the Treaty of Fort Clark — between the Osage Nation and the United States — was signed November 10, 1808, at what was then called Fort Clark on the Missouri River. Per the treaty, the Osage Nation ceded its land east of a line that ran due south from … More Treaty of Fort Clark
The Haute Louisiane, French for the “upper Louisiana,” included all territory in the 18th-century Louisiana colony north of the confluence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers, including the eventual site of Fayetteville.
Early 19th century French maps of Arkansas show two families — the Futenah Establishment and the Guillaume Plantation — on the upper White River, possibly as high as the split of the East, Middle and West Forks on the east side of present-day Fayetteville. The maps of this early period aren’t accurate in their depiction … More Futenah and Guillaume