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Last night I finished reading the November selection for my local library book group. The book is called Killers Of The Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI and was written by David Grann. This is a well written and well researched book about a fascinating topic. I expect it to make my top ten list of my favorite books read in 2018. The book describes the experience of the Osage Tribe who became rich when oil was discovered on their reservation. It shows how they were exploited for their money and then even systematically murdered for their fortunes. White men would marry the wealthy Native American women and then murder all their siblings, their parents and then the woman herself in order to inherit the fortune. In some cases even the white men's own children were killed. The author describes how these white men did not consider the Native Americans people but instead thought they were no more than livestock. They did not feel they were committing murder when they killed them. The book also makes clear the corruption in the law enforcement and legal system at the time. Everything was stacked to steal from the Osage and even to allow the whites to get away with the murders. Corruption was rampant. When a law man would work on the case with a conscious he would also turn up dead. The FBI was just new and not even named the FBI yet. The Osage Murders were one of their first major victories and was extremely well covered in the news of the times. The topic of this book should be taught in schools. It is an important part of our history that we need to learn from. I highly recommend this book. Please click on the author's name and book title above to follow the links to more information. And be sure to enjoy the video that follows.
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