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15 things I learned/thought about while listening to the SwatTalk "Killers of the Flower Moon and the Importance of Strong Native Nation Governments" with Miriam Jorgensen '87

Having read the book, I was excited to hear this talk. 

  1. While the US Government may have helped stop one particular set of abuses against the Osage, they were standing in a position to keep enacting abuses
  2. The Ingalls settled on Osage land
  3. Voting rights were initially inherited and could be inherited by non-Osage
  4. The Reign of Terror that the Osage faced is more recent than you want it to be (1918-1931)
  5. Restorative justice is used in a lot of indigenous thought
  6. Casinos are ways of replacing lost tax income
  7. Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development is a thing
  8. Blood quantum is still affecting indigenous citizenship
  9. I should learn the land story of Chicago
  10. native-land.ca is a thing
  11. I want to figure out how to support indigenous nations
  12. I should read more books on indigenous nations
  13. I should reread this book
  14. I should see the movie
  15. I want to attend more SwatTalks

(Prompt by me)

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


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