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Usually ships in 28-42 business days | | | | | | In the 1920s, oil production on the Osage reservation transformed the tribe into the wealthiest population in the world. Strangers descended upon the region, courting and wedding young Osage women. Many of these new brides died mysteriously. In this searing memoir, journalist Dennis McAuliffe researches the death of his grandmother and realizes that his own grandfather may have engineered her death. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Author: | Dennis McAuliffe | | Paperback: | 352 pages | | Publisher: | Council Oak Books | | Publication Date: | September 01, 1999 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1571780831 | | Package Length: | 9.02 inches | | Package Width: | 6.06 inches | | Package Height: | 0.89 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.26 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 10 reviews |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Bloodland - Osage Reign of Terror Aug 24, 2003
By Janet Littlecrow
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!
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
We're Still Ashamed of Our Past Jun 20, 2001
By Heather Miller
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.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Incredible, fascinating May 23, 2000
By Dianna Johnston
"Compulsive Reader"
I read this book with my book club members which culminated with a "speakerphone chat" with the author. I must say that this was a wonderful and powerful novel that gets the reader thinking. I am not an Indian, and I am ashamed to say I had no idea about the Reign of Terror or the prejudices felt by Indians of any tribe. This book opened my eyes. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this true murder mystery was going to turn out. In the meantime, I got an awesome history lesson that I will never forget.
10 of 12 found the following review helpful:
Good journalism...great insights Feb 25, 2000
By Leah
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 Murders, is an entirely different effort from telling the true story of your own family, as Dennis McAuliffe succeeded in doing beautifully with Bloodland. Woven into the threads of the story of his Osage grandmother's brutal murder at the hands of her own white stepfather is his own experience of claiming his rightful place in the tribe and passing that proud legacy on to his own son. Contrary to what earlier reviewers have implied, it is completely possible to mourn the loss of a grandparent that you never knew, and that loss becomes even more poignant in its senselessness. Mr. McAuliffe's work tells a story within a story. It is first of all a well-researched documentary of a period in history for which this nation has much to answer. It is also the journal of a period in the author's own life during which he came to discover who he is and what of himself he will give to his child. As an adult who was adopted, I can relate to his occassional silliness as he tries to get a job using his minority "blood quantum" status as well as his more serious and reflective awareness of everything coming together and finally making sense. If you are interested in researching the history of the Osages, there are probably many books that will give you "just the facts." Bloodland will show you not only how those facts impacted on the people who lived them, but also how the events continue to resonate in the lives of those folks several generations removed.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Incredible, fascinating May 10, 2000
By Dianna Johnston
"Compulsive Reader"
I read this book with my book club members which culminated with a "speakerphone" chat with the author. I must say that this was a wonderful and powerful novel that gets the reader thinking. I am not an Indian, and I am ashamed to say I had no idea about the Reign of Terror or the prejudices felt by Indians of any tribe. This book opened my eyes. I was on the edge of my seat waiting to see how this true murder mystery was going to turn out. In the meantime, I got an awesome history lesson that I will never forget.
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