Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage ReservationCouncil Oak Books, 1999 - 341 pagina's Journalist Dennis McAuliffe, Jr. opens old family wounds and ultimately exposes a widespread murder conspiracy and shameful episode in American history. |
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BODIES OF EVIDENCE | 69 |
Chapter Five | 71 |
Chapter Eight | 160 |
TRIBUTES TO A VANISHING RACE | 193 |
Chapter Nine | 195 |
Chapter Ten | 230 |
Chapter Eleven | 268 |
Epilogue | 291 |
Afterword | 297 |
Ackknowledgments | 302 |
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Bloodland: A Family Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation Dennis McAuliffe Fragmentweergave - 1999 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 80 - beyond what the individuals can pay, they become willing to lop them off by a cession of lands.
Pagina 80 - we shall push our trading uses, and be glad to see the good and influential individuals among them run in
Pagina 98 - It was plain to be seen that they regarded the occasion as a momentous one and that the coming battle had been the sole subject of
Pagina 226 - These people do not know what they are doing; they have never been trained, nor have they the opportunity to learn what it all means.
Pagina 80 - and will be willing to pare them off from time to time in exchange for
Pagina 84 - land he must have it, that he was strong and powerful, they were poor and pitiful, what could they do? He had demanded
Pagina 84 - You have heard this treaty explained to you. Those who now come forward and sign it, shall be considered
Pagina 82 - not that we might hurt one another, but to do each other all the good in our power.
Pagina 82 - No wrong will ever be done you by our nation, and we trust that yours will do none to us.
Pagina 97 - cry of an infant; and savages though they were and justly outlawed by the number and atrocity of