Shavings_in_the_RIO t1_jeeuhbq wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:34 PM

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It’s hard to come up with a good estimate since it’s not known what was a murder or what was a natural death. I was told it was around 100 or so growing up. You can talk to any Osage and they will have had a family meme bet who died during that era. My great great grandfather was one of the victims.

DisneyDreams7 t1_jeewr92 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:49 PM

It was all murders, none of them were natural deaths because they weren’t extremely old

Shavings_in_the_RIO t1_jeexsm0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:56 PM

What? I’m a bit confused what you mean but there were totally elderly tribe members, some of them died naturally. This event took place over the course of 5 years. The reason we know that there were more than just the 24 investigated deaths was because the death rate from 1920-1925 greatly exceeded the norm.