Ernest and Mollie Burkhart married in 1917. Unbeknownst to Mollie, a member of the Osage tribe, the marriage was part of a larger plot to steal her family's oil wealth.
Alan: A big chunk of American Exceptionalism is that we gringos are the only people on earth who can rip off any other ethnicity and call it "God's Work."
In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money
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