“My failure…was because they ripped out too many pages of our history…There were too many lies, too many documents destroyed, too little done at the time…” (286)
I love history. Give me the facts. Show me how you got there. Let me join you in combing through what others left behind. If you’re looking for a romanticized version of the “Reign of Terror” on the Osage nation, then this is NOT your book.
So many questions left unanswered.
A “culture of killing” (283). Bigotry. Lies. Power. Wealth. Greed. Conspiracy. Corruption. Those thought of as less than. Murder to obtain wealth. Those entrusted to protect, become part of destroying the community. Marriages brokered. Marriages broken. Rights thrown asunder. Pushed off their native land, only to find themselves sitting on top of a vast oil field…headlights.
“This land is saturated with blood.” - Mary Jo Webb (291)
And when the oil was no longer profitable…the Osage continued to wonder what happened to their ancestors? Why was the tribe so decimated by greed? Will they ever get back those lost pages of their history?
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