A Take on Killers of the Flower Moon

This book deals with telling the story of the Osage Reign of Terror. The Osage, a Native American tribe, who in the seventeenth century had their territory spread across a large part of the center of the United States, stretching from what is now Missouri to as far as the West Rockies. However, in 1802, President Thomas Jefferson, made the Louisiana purchase, owning legal rights to Osage territory. The Osage were forced to give up nearly a hundred million acres of ancestral land. Hereafter made their way to a newly bought territory in Southeast Kansas, they were promised that land would be theirs for ever. Soon enough, they were put out of the new territory by white settlers who grew impatient and committed atrocities to the Native Americans. In 1870, the Osage were forced once again to sell their land, $1.25 dollars per acre. They would now purchase a 1.5 million-acre piece of land south of Kansas. It was a barren, rocky territory, no good for agriculture. The Osage did this on purpose so that the government would not force them to move again. What happened was that this unwanted land by the whites had a lot of mineral treasures, including oil, that through the land’s purchase were under Osage ownership. <a href="https://tenochyakecan.medium.com/a-take-on-killers-of-the-flower-moon-3f887e4bbd52">Website</a>