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The Moonscape

The Moonscape

FromIn Trust


The Moonscape

FromIn Trust

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Length:
31 minutes
Released:
May 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Since “In Trust” aired, we’ve heard more stories about how Native wealth was exploited. Not far from Osage County, citizens of the Quapaw Nation tell eerily similar accounts of unexplained deaths and mismanaged mineral resources. Lead and zinc mining around Picher, Oklahoma, provided bullets for two world wars, but left Native families to restore land that looks more like the surface of the moon than the prairie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Released:
May 9, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (16)

A hundred and fifty years ago, the Osage Nation bought a stretch of prairie the size of Delaware, in what's now Oklahoma. The Osage owned the land and everything beneath it. Today, much of present-day Osage County has left Osage hands. In some cases, appropriation was swift and brutal: Dozens of Osages were murdered for their share of lucrative mineral rights to this oil-rich land, a period often referred to as the Reign of Terror. But other transfers of wealth played out more subtly—dollar by dollar and acre by acre, over decades—helped along by policies created by the US government.Learn more and follow our listener guides at bloomberg.com/intrust.