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Sioux Hanging Around
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Precision
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Re: Sioux Hanging Around
that sounded like a fair and balanced cliff notes. Everyone was at least a little scummy. Most of those 38 we really scummy.
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Jered
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Re: Sioux Hanging Around
Frankly, I can't blame the Indians at all for killing Indian agents because of the poor moral character of the Indian Agents.
The industrial culture forced out the hunter-gatherer culture which is a trend in history.
The industrial culture forced out the hunter-gatherer culture which is a trend in history.
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Windy Wilson
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The Indian Agents were of very uneven capabilities and honesty, with an ethical one being the rare exception.
I just finished reading Killer of the Flower Moon, about a group of murders that took place in the early twenties on the Osage land in Oklahoma. The Osage discovered they had oil under their land, so they lease well head rights to oil companies and made a lot of money all of a sudden. Virtually all the whites in the various boom towns were cheating the Indians any way they could. Some were not satisfied with merely cheating them and shot and poisoned them. The Osage reacted with remarkable restraint, and eventually the FBI (just the Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover then) tried several of the murderers. Once the oil money ran out, the cheating and murdering stopped
I just finished reading Killer of the Flower Moon, about a group of murders that took place in the early twenties on the Osage land in Oklahoma. The Osage discovered they had oil under their land, so they lease well head rights to oil companies and made a lot of money all of a sudden. Virtually all the whites in the various boom towns were cheating the Indians any way they could. Some were not satisfied with merely cheating them and shot and poisoned them. The Osage reacted with remarkable restraint, and eventually the FBI (just the Bureau of Investigation under J. Edgar Hoover then) tried several of the murderers. Once the oil money ran out, the cheating and murdering stopped
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