Worth watching the eight minute story that appeared on CBS Sunday Morning yesterday, April 30.
Apparently 1923 was a bad year to be a member of the Osage Tribe.
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Pretty interesting article, I'd like to read the book.The killing stopped in the '20s, but the cheating and fiscal mismanagement really didn't. The DOI continued to "hold in trust" the Osage Nation's oil income for another 75 years. Eventually (like this century) the Osage sued the Department of Interior over the management of their royalties. Sometime in the last 5 years or so the DOI settled with the tribe to the tune of something in the neighborhood of a half a billion dollars.
Lots of sad stories when it comes to the feds and their policies over the years concerning native nations.
When the Osages were "uninvited" from continued living in Missouri about 1800 they moved into what is now my neck of the woods. Let's just say they fared far better financially by moving to what is now Osage County, OKlahoma. For your information, there was a large contingent of Osage soldiers fighting for the South.
Holy Cow, post: 426330, member: 50 wrote: When the Osages were "uninvited" from continued living in Missouri about 1800 they moved into what is now my neck of the woods. Let's just say they fared far better financially by moving to what is now Osage County, OKlahoma. For your information, there was a large contingent of Osage soldiers fighting for the South.
The last Confederate general to surrender was Stand Watie, of the Cherokees.
In many ways the feds and others didn't regard the Indians as human.
One of my favorite bumper stickers was "Custer had it coming". He wasn't a hero. He was scum.
Stephen Johnson, post: 426334, member: 53 wrote: In many ways the feds and others didn't regard the Indians as human.
One of my favorite bumper stickers was "Custer had it coming". He wasn't a hero. He was scum.
Custer was a documented loose cannon; a maniac. Between his West Point education, a megalomaniacal personality, a little luck leading a repel of Confederate soldiers at Gettysburg, some name dropping and political shenanigans he was able to muster out of the Union Army as a major general.
He was a ruthless killer and someone in Washington felt it necessary to send an officer of his reputation to fight the Indians on the frontier. He accepted a commission with the rank of Lt. Colonel with the 7th. Cav. A move that sealed his arrogant and ignorant fate.
You do know he graduated at or near the bottom of his Class at West Point.
As to his fate, The worst of that was all the good troopers he took with him.
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523964584/in-the-1920s-a-community-conspired-to-kill-native-americans-for-their-oil-money
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/524348264/largely-forgotten-osage-murders-reveal-a-conspiracy-against-wealthy-native-ameri
I caught both of these on NPR too.
