Over the past few months I've read several books on American history written by Native-American scholars that included Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America and Pekka Hamalainen's Indigenous Continent. I've also read other books that reveal the history of America from a different perspective rather than the way we were taught in school during the 50's and 60's. There were many incidents in American history that were ignored or covered up by White America. This book is another one of them.
I was really shocked reading this book even though having read those previous books I was not prepared for the utter depravity of what was done to the Osage Indians in Oklahoma. The ongoing murders were horrific and the way those people were treated was despicable. This is also American history.
This series of murders were all tied to oil on Osage land and the mineral rights owned by the tribe. The oil resources were discovered after the land was sold to the Osage. Then the local white businessmen started killing people to get access to that oil.
The book also went into some detail concerning the early years of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. I have read a couple of books over the years on the FBI and it's abuse and have also read a biography of Hoover which was very nasty. He didn't look very good in this book either.
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