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Mean Spirit
by Linda Hogan
Oil under Osage land. White men with plans.
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The Osage Nation in Oklahoma in the 1920s, after oil was discovered under their land. The US government had assigned each Osage person a headright — a share of the oil revenue. Then the murders started. White men marrying Osage women, then the women dying. Guardianship schemes. A systematic campaign to take the oil wealth by eliminating the people who owned it. Hogan — Chickasaw — writes this history as a novel, giving the Osage their interior lives back. Essential companion to Killers of the Flower Moon.
WHERE THIS BOOK LIVES
- Setting
- North America
- Voice
- Written by a North America author
- Themes
- American MythmakingFounding LiesAfter Empire
