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Title: Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation by Dennis McAuliffe ISBN: 1-57178-083-1 Publisher: Council Oak Distribution Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Bloodland - Osage Reign of Terror
Comment: This was a very well-written book, very close to accounts of those times in Osage country that I've heard from other Osage families. Dennis starts off his book as a typical middle-class white American, just researching old family stories and geneology. He begins to see things as an Indian, and realizes that his grandmother was one of the thousands of Indian victims of greed here in Oklahoma. Her murder, like so many others, was virtually ignored by the world. On several levels, his family story is the story of Indian Oklahoma. I applaud Dennis for his courage to continue his research, and to write the truth!
Rating: 4
Summary: A very disturbing tale
Comment: This was a very riveting book. I wasn't too sure how much I'd enjoy it when I started. . . it seemed at first like the author was simply out to trash white people. Maybe that was my own guard going up. . . I don't know.
Regardless, this turned out to be a very good book. The author finds out late in life that his grandmother committed suicide. As he investigates his family history, it turns out she was murdered, instead.
This all happened in the "Reign of Terror," a time back in the 1910's and 1920's in which literally hundreds of Osage Indians were murdered for their land and money (they had recently become quite rich because of the discovery of oil). McAullife's grandmother was caught up in this terrible tragedy.
At times I found it hard to follow who the author was talking about. Fortunately, the front of the book contains the author's family tree--this was very useful at times in helping me figure out who was related to whom.
This book tells about a shameful time during our state's (and nation's) history. It is worth reading, if for no other reason that we won't repeat our mistakes.
Rating: 4
Summary: We're Still Ashamed of Our Past
Comment: I originally bought this book because I thought it sounded like an interesting fiction. It quickly became obvious that it wasn't a fictional story at all, but rather another atrocity in American history that is only known through rumors and campfire stories. This book is a expert mix of personal obstacles for the author and unbiased historical documentation of an Osage tribe and its gift/curse of oil wealth. I doubt many people are strangers to the tales of Native abuses by whites, but I've asked many people if they've ever heard of the Osage murders at the turn of the century when oil was struck on their land. None had. This is a wonderfully wrought piece. I recommend it to anyone with a flare for history, the glorified as well as the darker chapters.
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Title: The Osage Indian Murders: The True Story of a 21-Murder Plot to Inherit the Headrights of Wealthy Osage Tribe Members by Laurence J. Hogan ISBN: 096591741X Publisher: Amlex Inc Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan ISBN: 0804108633 Publisher: Ivy Books Pub. Date: 24 November, 1991 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Osage and the Invisible World: From the Works of Francis LA Flesche (Civilization of the American Indian Series, Vol 217) by Garrick A. Bailey, Francis LA Flesche ISBN: 0806131322 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Pipe for February: A Novel (American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, V. 44) by Charles H. Red Corn ISBN: 0806134542 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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