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Summary Of In The 1920s A Community Forced To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money

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In the Article “In the 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money”, Steve Inskeep explains how members of the Osage Tribe were being killed one by one at a unusual rate. Ernest Burkhart married Molly Burkhart with a scheme to murder her family and inherit the family's oil money. After they married one by one her family began to die, and they struggled to find a reason why. The worst part about it is a lot of government officials were apart of this scheme. Anyone who tried to stop or report the issue would end up dead within days. After many deaths a small branch of the Justice Department Intervened they are now known as the FBI. An undercover FBI team began to investigate, and found many of the “ring leaders”

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