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By 1920, the Osage were receiving lucrative revenues from royalties and were counted as the richest people in the country.
During the 1920s, Osage County was the site of the infamous Osage Indian murders.
Because of the great wealth being generated by oil, an estimated 60 tribal members were killed as whites tried to gain their headrights, royalties or land.
The FBI believed that several white husbands of Osage women had committed or ordered their murders.
Other Osage were tricked out of their legal rights by unscrupulous white opportunists, in some cases attorneys or businessmen appointed by local courts as " guardians " to the Osage, under the requirements of a law passed by Congress in 1921 that was meant for their protection, but put them more at risk.

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