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, TOME oy “3 dae oe f B j R33 - ef : f Bee Sap _ aa 1986 . MAY hf ly (HE OSAGR MURDERS .! ae : a ON | fhe "Osage" ls located potmenn ne Soak eat! River b Bad the Kansas State ling in the northeusterly uart af Ckxlahoma in : . what up te only a few yaarg age was barren, axoent for a few poor f pastures; in fact, whan tha Osage tribe was foroead to loaves Fensas : and settled inte what now is called Osage, it was considerad thay tay ; bad paid a million ‘two hudred thousand dollars “for & poor grave for the tripe. Phe area of the Osaga is 2,277 square miles and tha toval a ‘ population Lnoreased approximately 350 percent between 1900 and Is, ~ the last census showlag 36,536 souls. In 1903 the mad rush for oll already bad brougui into tea : gounty unscrupulous prospectors and the county actually produced in : that years. It was only a short time thersgafter that seme 2,000 Usares 7 found themselves facing the sang problen which drove the Iidian fran : Virginia and Massachusetts which, except for a slight difference in : | tactic, was to havea the same result, ~ the ultimate goquisition by tne oo ,white man of all Shay the Indian posssssed. FPiguratively, the desert io blossomed into a garden of roses and the Osages over nignt becans the ¢ - : 2 wealthiest people per capita in the world. In 1506 there ware o, 028 “2 i 25 mewperg of the tribs, ~ today there are but 1.5804 fine Sederal Govern. [ : f 3 se, | on @une 2éth, “1906 @hacted a law known'as ths Osage Act under which | i = @ 36 the “2,229. members of the tribe ware to recsiva through tua soverncost SPL sag | 53 \ | a4 ANE Raptichiis Re as ee a