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The Osage Nation Murders: The Story Behind Killers of the Flower Moon
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In the long history of the relationship between Native Americans and the European settlers and their descendents who so widely displaced North America’s Indigenous people, there has been much injustice and tragedy. Stories of violence and broken treaties, mendacity, mistreatment, and massacres have become increasingly well known. But, although the events related to the murders of many members of the Osage tribe in the 1920s were in the headlines of the day, that disturbing chapter of American history long remained largely unknown. Learn about it here.