#osage tribe

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Members of the Osage Nation Live on the Oscars Red Carpet in Hollywood

[dontforgetoctober3rd]

Re-reading Killers of the Flower Moon to prep for the movie (which I’m convinced will be THE movie of the year tbh) and yep, it’s still horrific.

The thing that always made me seethe was the whole concept of the Osage “needing” guardians appointed by the government to manage how they spend their money...as if there wasn’t crazy ass rich white people spending their own fortunes like they would last forever (large part of this takes place during the Roaring 20s, you know, when living in excess was basically an aesthetic for the wealthy while poor people barely scraped by...)

Anyways I highly recommend the book! Because apparently the movie will be over 3 hrs long and you bet your bottom dollar I’m gonna dig around the net to find out the best time to go pee 😭

[prairie-tales]

'An Osage Indian Lancing a Buffalo'.

George Catlin, ????

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Osage Tribe: Arrow Head (Punta di Freccia) (1972)

Not much historical detail survives about Italian progressive rockers Osage Tribe, who formed in Genoa and delivered but one, Native American-themed studio LP called Arrow Head (in Italian, Punta di Freccia) in 1972, then faded into obscurity.

But I personally think it’s both curious and entirely fitting that, when they had to choose between playing the part of the cowboys or the “indians,” these hairy hippies raised in the land of Spaghetti Westerns chose to champion the Native Americans. 

Their name was inspired by the Osage Nation, whose roots in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys date back to 700 B.C., and who referred to themselves in their indigenous Dhegihan Siouan tongue as the “People of the Middle Waters,” which French fur trappers translated as “calm waters” or “osage.”

As for the band, it was originally founded by pop singer Franco Battiato, but he quit after releasing one novelty single (‘71’s “Un Falco nel Cielo”), leaving Marco Zoccheddu (guitar, keyboards, harmonica, vocals), Roberto ‘Bob’ Callero (bass, vocals), and Ninzio ‘Cucciolo’ Fava (drums, vocals) to dive headlong into prog.

And we’re talking serious ‘70s prog rock, rife with ever-restless-and-reckless multi-part epics, most of them averaging seven-to-nine minutes in length, and jammed with 54 musical styles (uh, roughly) and radical changes of direction: i.e. sensible, commercially-oriented songwriting optional!

And yet, remarkably, much of it works, as Osage Tribe fuse symphonic prog and cliché Native American rhythms on “Hajenhanhowa” (that’s Italian for absolutely nothing), show off their jazz chops on “Cerchio di Luce” (“Circle of Light”), rock hard, then soft, then hard again on “Soffici Bianchi Veli” (“Soft White Veils”), and finally cram every remnant idea, wonky time signature, and virtuoso lick into the jam-happy “Orizzonti Senza Fine” (“Endless Horizons”).

When all is said and (almost) done, the closest thing to a practical single to be found here is the titular “Arrow Head,” and only because its urgent heavy funk tops out at a modest five minutes; but one song can’t change the fact that this was as audacious and unapologetic an art rock excursion as the progressive era ever produced.

Alas, it was also a poor-selling one and, by end of ‘72, after a final single (“Prehistoric Sound” b/w “Crazy Horse”), Zoccheddu and Callero formed a new group called Duello Madre and bequeathed the Osage Tribe name to Cucciolo, who carried on with a new lineup for a short while.

2013’s Hypnosis LP reunited two out of three original members (Callero and Cucciolo, plus guitarist Mattia Tedesco), but who gives a fuck?

Like most bands, both famous and infamous, Osage Tribe’s legacy should be judged by their original musical efforts, not some belated cash-in-quick scheme by old men, though Callero certainly wasn’t hurting for money, having carved out quite the impressive session man career over previous decades.

More Vintage Progressive Rock: Beckett’s Beckett, Birth Control’s Operation, Bodkin's Bodkin, A Bolha’s Um Passo à Frente, Can’s Ege Bamyasi, Clear Blue Sky’s Clear Blue Sky, Crack the Sky’s Crack the Sky, Eloy’s Eloy, Focus’ Moving Waves, Frumpy’s Frumpy 2, Genesis’ Nursery Cryme, Goblin’s Profondo Rosso, Gracious’ Gracious!, Hard Meat’s Hard Meat, High Tide’s Sea Shanties, Horslips’ The Tain, Jade Warrior’s Jade Warrior, Jethro Tull’s Aqualung, Jody Grind’s Far Canal, Kahvas Jute’s Wide Open, Kansas’ Kansas, King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King, The Move’s Looking On, Nektar’s A Tab in the Ocean, Paladin’s Charge!, Patto’s Hold Your Fire, Pink Floyd’s Meddle, Premiata Forneria Marconi’s Photos of Ghosts, Quiet Sun’s Mainstream, Rush’s Hemispheres, Savage Grace’s 2, Steel Mill’s Green Eyed God, Stray’s Stray, Stray Dog’s Stray Dog, Styx’s The Grand Illusion, T2's It'll All Work Out in Boomland, Tempest’s Tempest, Van Der Graaf Generator’s Pawn Hearts, Wild Turkey’s Battle Hymn, Wishbone Ash’s Argus, Yes’ Fragile, Zarathustra’s Zarathustra.

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10 Kingly Things about David Grann’s “Killers of the Flower Moon”

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Nikki’s Rating: 10 out of 10 Summary: Living a life of luxury during the 1920s, the Osage Nation in Oklah…

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Osage Warrior, watercolor by Charles Balthazar Julien Févrét de Saint-Mémin (1807)

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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

4 stars

Dates Read: 03/03/19 - 03/09/19

I started this book knowing absolutely nothing about the Osage tribe other than they were a group of Native Americans who were pushed to Oklahoma like so many during the 1800s. The Osage were pushed to Oklahoma in the 1870s after it was decided that their land in Kansas was worth more to white people. However, it turned out to be in their favor as the land they resided on in Oklahoma was discovered to have quite a bit of oil in the 1920s. Thanks to the way they were forced to move, the land belonged to the Osage people and, surprisingly, the laws supported their right to the land. Of course, there was always a catch. Many Osage were deemed incompentent with handling their own affairs and were appointed guardians who would "oversee" their wealth. There were many white men who became guardians for several Osage at once and, as expected, many swindled the Osage out of their money. Some guardians bought items like cars and then sold them to the Osage for a much more expensive price than what they were purchased for. Some "balanced" the books and skimmed some money off for themselves. Then, there were some who did terrible things in order to get money from their charges. Listening to the work, I was intrigued and horrified to learn of how so many Osage were murdered due to greed. It seemed to start with the murder of Mollie Burkhart's sister, Anna Brown, whose body was found near a creek with a bullet wound in her skull. From there, Mollie's mother, Lizzie, became severely ill and passed away. Then, more and more Osage were turning up dead from suspicious circumstances--including a home exploding in the dead of the night. The FBI as we know it today didn't exactly exist. There were law men and officers who investigated cases as an organized task force and this force was lead by J. Edgar Hoover--who became the first head of the FBI. Hoover assigned the case of the murdered Osage people to Tom White, who uncovered a terrible and dark plot for some guardians to gain as many land rights as possible. The history of the murder investigations was very interesting. David Grann did an excellent job at piecing together the different plots and even revealed some that had previously been undiscovered. I listened to it on audiobook and, at times, I found it difficult to keep track of the different names and who was who. I had to go back and look over things in a physical copy and discovered that there are photographs that tie to the investigation in the physical copy. I recommend people reading it because the story of the Osage people must be remembered. The nation must recognize its dark past in order to move forward from its dark present. 

[decembersoul]

The Osage Indians were once the richest per capita people in the world due to oil reserves on their land. Congress then passed a law requiring court appointed “guardians” to manage their wealth. Over 60 Osage were murdered from 1921-1925, their land rights passed to the guardian

Three men were convicted and sentenced in this case, but most murders went unsolved. A late twentieth-century investigation by the journalist Dennis McAuliffe revealed deep corruption among white officials in the county at the time. Problems included failure of law enforcement to conduct post-mortem exams, falsified death certificates issued by the coroner’s office, and other activities among white officials to cover up the murders.