You're listening to CodeSwitch, I'm Lori Lissarraga.

Several months ago, Adam meet up for local audio journalists and podcast creators.

I met a colleague of mine for the first time in person, Sam Yellowhorse Kessler.

Sam is a CodeSwitch alum, but he's been working with our friends over at Planet Money

for a while now on some really, really good content.

There was one episode he reported that I've kept saved since March.

He's got CodeSwitch written all over it, and that's basically all the setup you need

for me.

So here they are from Planet Money, Amanda Aronshik, and Sam Yellowhorse Kessler.

This is the battle over Osage head rights.

This is Planet Money from NPR.

When Richard Lonsinger was in his mid-40s, he learned that his birth mother Barbara had

passed away, and Richard made a choice to try to get a particular piece of her state to

which he felt entitled.

At the time, he believed that securing that inheritance would help him belong, to connect

to his birth family or maybe his heritage.

But gradually, Richard came to doubt the choice he made.

It was in March 2010 that his birth mother passed away.

There had been a service, but Richard didn't find out about that until after it had already

happened.

I unfortunately did not get notified for the funeral, and it's one of those things where

I'm shocked, you know, I'm like, well, why wouldn't they tell me?

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