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"The Osage of Oklahoma were the richest people on the planet.
Until they killed them.
For their oil.
This is an investigation I’ve worked on quietly for 27 years. And now I’m
finally able to give you a 100-second preview, here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inoqKRlvav4
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.
However, as Osage Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear tells me, “But it’s
not over. It’s still happening.”
Where
Killers of the Flower Moon ends, our new documentary,
Long Knife,
begins: the hidden story of the Osage over the 100 years since the Reign of
Terror."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
