NPR Topic: "Largely Forgotten Osage Murders Reveal A Conspiracy Against Wealthy Native Americans"

Rosemariejackowski suggested this as a topic. Thank you, Rosmarie! It is not just a case of serial murders largely forgotten. It gives a window into the level of racism inherent in 1920s society. 
You can read the transcript or listen to the interview, which begins with the following:
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This is FRESH AIR. I'm Dave Davies in for Terry Gross. Our guest David Grann's book tells the story of one of the biggest serial murder cases in American history and one of the most forgotten. The setting was the Osage Indian Nation in the 1920s when oil deposits had brought enormous wealth to members of the tribe. Soon, Grann writes, the world's richest people per capita were becoming the most murdered. The Osage were being shot and poisoned in staggering numbers. And the murderers, it turned out, were local whites who had befriended and in many cases married their victims.
"Grann's book about the killings, now out in paperback, is both an absorbing murder mystery as J. Edgar Hoover's FBI takes on its first murder investigation and also a dark journey into the hard-edged racism that allowed whites to view Native Americans as subhumans who ought to be relieved of their newly acquired wealth.
Read or listen more at https://www.npr.org/2018/04/06/600136534/largely-forgotten-osage-murders-reveal-a-conspiracy-against-wealthy-native-ameri

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