White Hair (Pawhuska) is the English name of several Osage leaders in the eighteenth and nineteenth century.
The chief was impressed by how the wig protected its original wearer, so he kept it for the rest of his life and became known as White Hair.
Pawhuska was the most prominent chief and had the closest relationships with French traders, especially the Chouteau family which operated under the rule of the Spanish government.
The Osage subsequently were forced by White and Indian encroachment on their lands to move back to a small reservation in Kansas.
[8] By this time the powerful Osage of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century were a beleaguered people, but in one sense they had the last laugh.