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The Osage Indian murders were a series of murders of Osage in Osage County, Oklahoma, during the 1910s–1930s. Newspapers described the increasing number of unsolved murders and deaths among young adults as the "Reign of Terror". Most took place from 1921 to 1926.
- Shootings, poisonings
- Osage Native Americans
- 1918–1931
- Osage County, Oklahoma, US
Apr 24, 2017 · In the 1920s, oil-rich Osage Indians in Oklahoma kept mysteriously dying. During a period that came to be called the "Reign of Terror," scores, perhaps hundreds, were murdered.
Estimates of the number of Osage persons who were murdered vary but generally range from about two dozen to more than 60 during 1921–26, a time called the Reign of Terror. Such fear gripped the Osage community that many refused to leave their homes at night.
Sep 15, 2023 · The deaths sparked panic throughout Osage County and became known as a “reign of terror.” Meanwhile, the massive wealth of the Kyle family was inherited by the only survivors—Mollie Kyle, a...
Oct 20, 2023 · The Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror began in 1921 with the deaths of Mollie's sister Anna Brown (played by Cara Jade Myers) and Charles Whitehorn (Anthony J. Harvey), who were both...
- Megan Mccluskey
Oct 20, 2023 · Over half a decade, at least nine people would die in the murder spree Hale set into motion—some shot, some poisoned, three killed in an explosion that leveled their home. Most were members of the...
In the long history of the relationship between Native Americans and the European settlers and their descendents who so widely displaced North America’s Indigenous people, there has been much injustice and tragedy. Stories of violence and broken treaties, mendacity, mistreatment, and massacres have.
