"They couldn’t kill us all"

"In the 1920s, after discovery of the massive oil field on the Osage Reservation, the US government took away the Osage's right to their wealth, instead appointing a white Guardian for each Osage to "protect" their money."

Here's how their guardians protected them: Osage Anna Brown was shot in the head, her mother Lizzie poisoned, and her sister Rita was burnt to death when her home was dynamited. Sixty, and likely many more, Osage were assassinated. And their "guardians," their murderers - inherited their oil rights."

"That story, of the murder-for-oil Reign of Terror, is movingly portrayed in the film, Killers of the Flower Moon, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, to be released next month."

Full Article: [mailchi.mp]