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<blockquote data-quote="jayem" data-source="post: 77591087" data-attributes="member: 8344"><p>I just started Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann. It's a true account of the murders of members of the Osage Nation in the 1920s. It so happened that large oil deposits were discovered beneath their tribal lands in northeast Oklahoma. The tribe was earning millions by licensing the oil companies to extract petroleum. The Osage became the wealthiest people in the state of Oklahoma. Which, of course, was intolerable to certain white people. Who began killing tribal members in order to take over their land. Investigation of the case was taken up by the recently created FBI, and its young director, J. Edgar Hoover. I'm only about 50 pages in the book. But it's totally absorbing. And infuriating that racism, envy, greed, and murderous terrorism was ever thought to be acceptable by the white powers-that-be. And BTW, the Martin Scorsese film has about 10 Oscar nominations.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jayem, post: 77591087, member: 8344"] I just started Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann. It's a true account of the murders of members of the Osage Nation in the 1920s. It so happened that large oil deposits were discovered beneath their tribal lands in northeast Oklahoma. The tribe was earning millions by licensing the oil companies to extract petroleum. The Osage became the wealthiest people in the state of Oklahoma. Which, of course, was intolerable to certain white people. Who began killing tribal members in order to take over their land. Investigation of the case was taken up by the recently created FBI, and its young director, J. Edgar Hoover. I'm only about 50 pages in the book. But it's totally absorbing. And infuriating that racism, envy, greed, and murderous terrorism was ever thought to be acceptable by the white powers-that-be. And BTW, the Martin Scorsese film has about 10 Oscar nominations. [/QUOTE]
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