Often fascinating look at an American tragedy. The very personal murders of dozens or hundreds of Osage tribe members by their greedy white neighbors and often family members aided by the law, the courts and the government was a slow motion genocide. Another shameful chapter of our history better brought to light than forgotten. Willful forgetting of our history seems to be on a lot of minds these days--think the Red Summer of 1919 or the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 or the Rosewood Massacre of 1923 (most civil war confederate statues were erected between 1890 & 1929). The Osage murders probably spanned from 1919 to 1931-difficult to know exactly how many murders there were thanks to the disinterest of white society. At turns illuminating and infuriating but definitely important. Impressively researched pulling together scant and scattered materials. This struggle to gather data leading to my only real knock on the work--portions of the middle of the book loses structure and just becomes throwing facts onto the page with out much structure. I know this is a result not having much background to put in-between facts and suppositions but still felt disjointed and a bit of a pill to swallow as a reader.