1920s: OSAGE TRIBE MURDERS

The Osage tribe was driven from their homeland in Kansas onto land in northeastern Oklahoma. Tens of years later they discovered their new reservation land in Oklahoma contained some of the largest oil deposits in the United States.
The Osage tribe, a tribe from the plains, became what many would consider, the wealthiest people in the world.
As the Osage Indians became wiser to take preventative measures for protecting themselves from outsiders is when the mysterious murders began to occur. To their misfortune, the Osage Indian tribe suffered an estimated 60 murders in the 1920s.

The Osage tribe desired to keep their cultural customs
and practices such as hunting, fishing, and gathering rights through legal agreements. These treaties and agreements, however, were often marred by incidents of bribery, threats, and outright fraud by the United States negotiators.
The Osage people survived through the money that her people received for the oil deposits. Again, because they became, and were considered to be, the most wealthiest people in the world, many outsiders wanted to par-take in their profits. However, the only way an outsider can do that would be if someone in the tribe that owned a part of the land with oil deposits would have to die in order for someone to be able to purchase their land.

The betrayal of the Osage Nation was a systemic attack that continues to affect the Osage population.
The Osage people paid a terrible price for the lack of aid and protection that the government of the United States failed to provide even though there are treaties that have been around for over 200 years stating, not in exact words but, to protect Indian country/nation and look out for their well being.