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Sundown is a 1934 novel by the Osage writer John Joseph Mathews.Set in the Osage Nation and Osage County, Oklahoma, the novel follows the life of a "mixed blood" [a] Osage boy named Challenge Windzer as he navigates the conflicts between Osage traditionalism and assimilationism during the early 20th century.
John Joseph Mathews (November 16, 1894 – June 16, 1979) became one of the Osage Nation's most important spokespeople and writers of the mid-20th century, and served on the Osage Tribal Council from 1934 to 1942. Mathews was born into an influential Osage family, the son of William Shirley Mathews an Osage Nation
Ernest George Burkhart was born on September 11, 1892, to a poor cotton farmer in Greenville, Texas. He was a nephew of William King Hale.In 1912, aged nineteen, Burkhart moved into his uncle's ranch at Fairfax, Osage County, in search of fortune after the discovery of oil in the region. [1]
A key part of Killers of the Flower Moon is the fight over land; in New Mexico's Stolen Lands, author Ray John de Aragón details the dispossession and land theft following the Mexican-American ...
The Academy Awards shut out for "Killers of the Flower Moon" didn't stop the Osage Nation from shining in the ... There's the great Oxford-educated author John Joseph Mathews and his books; those ...
Based on journalist David Grann's 2017 best-selling book of the same name, Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed "true friend" of the ...
John Joseph Mathews (Osage), set his novel Sundown (1934) in the period of the murders. [19] "The Osage Indian Murders", a dramatization of the case first broadcast on August 3, 1935, was the third episode of the radio series G-Men, created and produced by Phillips Lord with cooperation of the FBI. [61] [62]
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