Dave Davies (Fresh Air, 4/
Largely forgotten Osage murders reveal a conspiracy against world's wealthiest people at the time, who happened to be Native Americans: Members of the Osage Indian Nation became extremely wealthy in the 1920s after oil deposits were found on the worthless reservation land to which they had been relegated. Then local whites began targeting tribe members, murdering them for money and covering it up their crimes with the ill gotten gains. The Osage tribe in Oklahoma became spectacularly wealthy in the early 1900s — then members started turning up defrauded and murdered. David Grann's forgotten American history book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI describes the dark plot against them and how the new FBI fumbled the case. More
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| Osage: victims at the hands of greedy white men (Osage National Museum/Doubleday) |
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