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Bloodland: A True Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation
 
 
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Bloodland: A True Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation (Paperback)

by Dennis Mcauliffe (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

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"As a boy in the Oklahoma oil patch, I heard rumors of the atrocities committed against the Osages. Dennis McAuliffe's magnificent reporting job brings this terrible episode in American history vividly to life."

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"An intimate quest for identity, a fascinating real-life whodunit, and a shattering expose of another shameful episode in the painful history of U.S. and Indian relations."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bloodland - Osage Reign of Terror, Aug 24 2003
By Janet Littlecrow (Otoe-Missouria Reservation, Red Rock, OK United States) - See all my reviews
This was a very well-written book, very close to accounts of those times in Osage country that I've heard from other Osage families. Dennis starts off his book as a typical middle-class white American, just researching old family stories and geneology. He begins to see things as an Indian, and realizes that his grandmother was one of the thousands of Indian victims of greed here in Oklahoma. Her murder, like so many others, was virtually ignored by the world. On several levels, his family story is the story of Indian Oklahoma. I applaud Dennis for his courage to continue his research, and to write the truth!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A very disturbing tale, Jan 28 2003
By Michael Freeman (Blanchard, OK) - See all my reviews
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This was a very riveting book. I wasn't too sure how much I'd enjoy it when I started. . . it seemed at first like the author was simply out to trash white people. Maybe that was my own guard going up. . . I don't know.

Regardless, this turned out to be a very good book. The author finds out late in life that his grandmother committed suicide. As he investigates his family history, it turns out she was murdered, instead.

This all happened in the "Reign of Terror," a time back in the 1910's and 1920's in which literally hundreds of Osage Indians were murdered for their land and money (they had recently become quite rich because of the discovery of oil). McAullife's grandmother was caught up in this terrible tragedy.

At times I found it hard to follow who the author was talking about. Fortunately, the front of the book contains the author's family tree--this was very useful at times in helping me figure out who was related to whom.

This book tells about a shameful time during our state's (and nation's) history. It is worth reading, if for no other reason that we won't repeat our mistakes.

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4.0 out of 5 stars We're Still Ashamed of Our Past, Jun 20 2001
By Heather Miller (Minden, NV United States) - See all my reviews
I originally bought this book because I thought it sounded like an interesting fiction. It quickly became obvious that it wasn't a fictional story at all, but rather another atrocity in American history that is only known through rumors and campfire stories. This book is a expert mix of personal obstacles for the author and unbiased historical documentation of an Osage tribe and its gift/curse of oil wealth. I doubt many people are strangers to the tales of Native abuses by whites, but I've asked many people if they've ever heard of the Osage murders at the turn of the century when oil was struck on their land. None had. This is a wonderfully wrought piece. I recommend it to anyone with a flare for history, the glorified as well as the darker chapters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, fascinating
I read this book with my book club members which culminated with a "speakerphone chat" with the author. Read more
Published on May 23 2000 by Dianna Johnston

5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible, fascinating
I read this book with my book club members which culminated with a "speakerphone" chat with the author. Read more
Published on May 10 2000 by Dianna Johnston

5.0 out of 5 stars Good journalism...great insights
Chronicling the Osage Reign of Terror through fiction, as Linda Hogan did exquisitely in Mean Spirit, or factually, as Lawrence Hogan attempted reasonably well in The Osage Indian... Read more
Published on Feb 25 2000 by Leah

1.0 out of 5 stars Lame Subplot Drains the Life out of Bloodland
As a person who works with Native American tribes, I am routinely asked which tribal histories are the most interesting. Read more
Published on Dec 21 1999 by trigger2

2.0 out of 5 stars Good reporting - yet author simplifies his "minority status"
Although this book brings an excellent historical perspective (of a tragic period in the Osage history) to its readers, the author should have refrained from giving the book a... Read more
Published on Sep 24 1999

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