Katrina Gulliver

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David Gramm reveals how, well into the 20th century, Native Americans were being hounded to death for their mineral wealth

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In the early 1920s, while the United States was entering its crazed phase of prohibition and prosperity, a group of Native Americans had also just struck it rich. The Osage were a tribe who had been driven west (like others), and had settled in a rocky region of northwest Oklahoma.

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