Article: Osage "reign of terror" commemorated

Joysa M. Winter
News From Indian Country
10-14-1994
Osage "reign of terror" commemorated.

Deep in the heart of America's prairie, where the horizons are made out of miles of whispering grass, not a lot happens in the sleepy town of Fairfax. But the townspeople don't mind.

Bearing the burden of the hundreds and possibly thousands of Osage Indians who were slain for their oil wealth in the bustling heyday of the 1920s -- back when their village was a metropolis -- the past is one place these people don't want to go.

But while this is one memory few elders want to discuss, on September 17, in the first public tribute ever to what is known as the "Osage Reign of Terror," they didn't have to. The ...

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