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BOOK OF THE MONTH [JUL-2024] - "Flowers for Algernon"
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The narrative depicts the tale(lives) of the Osage before, during, and after they became rich with their black gold/oil, highlighting how white Americans conspired to kill them for their money. Their culture, their efforts to retain it, and later their attempts to revive it when whites tried to institutionalize it through educating Osage children with their education system, are portrayed eloquently.
These events unfolded due to two primary factors : a) oil money, and b) the flaunting of that mon ...more
These events unfolded due to two primary factors : a) oil money, and b) the flaunting of that mon ...more
When Columbus set out to discover India, he landed in the Caribbean islands and mistook them for the Asian subcontinent. That's how he came to meet the natives of America, who then went on to be known as the Indians. The Indian Americans is an umbrella term for the hundreds of tribes in America and Osage is one among those. What made this tribe special was their wealth and the tragedy that fell upon them because of it.
For someone who is not familiar with the US before 21st century, this book wa ...more
For someone who is not familiar with the US before 21st century, this book wa ...more
Imagine marrying someone, raising children together, only to discover they are plotting against your family, killing them one by one for your wealth.
This chilling scenario is not fiction but a grim reality that befell Molly and numerous other families in Osage County in the early 1900s. In "Killers of the Flower Moon," David Grann attempts to capture the chronicles this dark chapter of American history where the Osage people's newfound oil wealth ignited a spree of greed-fueled murders by white ...more
This chilling scenario is not fiction but a grim reality that befell Molly and numerous other families in Osage County in the early 1900s. In "Killers of the Flower Moon," David Grann attempts to capture the chronicles this dark chapter of American history where the Osage people's newfound oil wealth ignited a spree of greed-fueled murders by white ...more
“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.”
'Killers of the Flower Moon' recounts the horrific years from the late 1910s all the way to the 1930s - where members of the Osage Nation, a tribe of native Americans in Oklahoma, USA, were targets of murder for their lucrative headrights, and subsequently, the vast riches that were bequeathed to them owing to the fact that the lands that they owned were rich in oil reserves that were sought out by private and govern ...more
'Killers of the Flower Moon' recounts the horrific years from the late 1910s all the way to the 1930s - where members of the Osage Nation, a tribe of native Americans in Oklahoma, USA, were targets of murder for their lucrative headrights, and subsequently, the vast riches that were bequeathed to them owing to the fact that the lands that they owned were rich in oil reserves that were sought out by private and govern ...more
