Osage Group
Osage Group
Osage Group is a private holding company organized by descendants of Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker. The Group builds, owns, and operates a portfolio of companies, platforms, and civic initiatives under the Osage name.
Osage Group
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Osage Group is a private holding company organized by descendants of Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker. The Group builds, owns, and operates a portfolio of companies, platforms, and civic initiatives under the Osage name.
A short history
Osage Group takes its name from a particular line — descended from Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942), Wah-Zha-Zhe, the first Native American to attain the rank of Major General in U.S. Army history. The General was lost in the closing hours of Midway, leading the long-range bombing mission he had himself planned. The Chairman Emeritus seat on our board is held permanently in his honour and is never refilled.
The Osage people, the Wazhazhe, secured something almost unique among Native nations: when the United States dissolved their reservation in 1907, the Osage kept the mineral estate communally. The land was divided. The wealth beneath it was not. That instinct — to keep what matters held together — is the operating principle of this house, and it is the reason the diaspora is organised the way it is now, a hundred and twenty years later.
The full memorial to the General is at osage.memorial. The international operating face of Osage Group — the heritage-institution corporate IA, the working entities, the standing partnerships — is at osage.global.
Office of the Chief Executive
H. “Smoke” Dupont — Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board. The Office of the Chief Executive coordinates the four lanes on standing terms; standing decisions route through this office.
Officers
Chairman Emeritus, in standing memory: Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker (1887–1942) — first Native American Major General; lost in the closing hours of Midway. The Chairman Emeritus seat is held permanently in his honour and is never refilled.
The officers: H. “Smoke” Dupont (CEO & Chairman of the Board), Alan Donohue (General Counsel), Serhiy Hromov (International Counsel), HRH Cyrus Pahlavi (Chief Investment Officer), Z. Kelling (Chief Architect & Cryptographer), Prof. Amii Omara-Otunnu (Chief Education Officer; UNESCO Chair, University of Connecticut), and Ashlie Christie (Chief of Staff). Officer biographies, standing committees, and governance principles are at /board.
What we give back
A standing share of operating profit flows to the Osage Foundation (501(c)(3)) and to Osage NGO (international civic). The Foundation directs philanthropic capital toward three enduring concerns: cultural and linguistic preservation of the Osage Nation; the education of Native American and rural-American students; and the care of the historical record. Awards announced 7 June each year.
Standing pillars
The wider ecosystem extends to operating properties across finance, commerce, civic, and culture. The on-chain settlement layer is held separately at osage.network with documentation at docs.osage.network.
Wah‑Zha‑Zhe · People of the Middle Waters
The Osage Group is organised by descendants of the Osage Nation and named in memoriam for Maj. Gen. Clarence L. Tinker. The Osage Nation, a federally recognised sovereign tribal government seated at Pawhuska, Oklahoma, speaks for itself and is not bound by any commitment on this site. Wah‑Zha‑Zhe heritage is honoured here; sovereignty is respected at its source.