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This episode includes discussions of racism, violence, murder, and death.

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When you think of the roaring 20s with all the jazz music, cigarette smoke, and flappers,

high heels, and fur coats, liquor flowing in dimly lit rooms and gangsters taking

chauffeured cars home to their terracotta mansions, you're probably not thinking of an Indian

reservation in Oklahoma, but maybe you should be.

This is the story of the Osage Nation, an indigenous tribe who in the early 20th century

became enormously wealthy, only to fall prey to a chilling conspiracy that ended in murder

and birthed the FBI.

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Today's story exists at the intersection of crime and conspiracies, so I'm joined by my

friend and host of conspiracy theories, Carter Roy.

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The Osage Nation once went by a different name, Neoconsca, or People of the Middle

Waters, but in the 1600s, French traders thought they were called Wajajee or Water People

and mispronounced the name as Osage, and for one reason or another, it stuck.

The tribe still uses Osage today, so that's how you'll hear us refer to them.

There are people called North America home centuries before the U.S. existed.

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