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Oil Strike

History

The Richest Black Girl in America

When an 11-year-old Black girl in Jim Crow America discovers a seemingly worthless plot of land she has inherited is worth millions, everything in her life changes—and the walls begin to close in.

Lauren N. Henley Truly*Adventurous Feb 2021 20min Permalink

Crime History

The Marked Woman

After oil was discovered on their Oklahoma reservation, the Osage Nation became the richest people per capita in the world. Then they began to be murdered off mysteriously. In 1924 the nascent FBI sent a team of undercover agents, including a Native American, to the Osage reservation.

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Excerpted from Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.

David Grann New Yorker Mar 2017 15min Permalink