Osage Nation

Osage Nation’s Black Gold The Petroleum industry burst at the seams across the United States’ rich petroleum deposits throughout the 19th century. In the wake of the rush for the black liquid gold, boomtowns grew overnight and the landscape was instantaneously changed. Yet, Osage Nation stood apart from the rest of the Oklahoma in the development of the expansive oil fields throughout the state. Under the tradition of the common laws adopted by the British the land right was under private ownership; yet the land and mineral rights could be sold independently of each other, which the Osage Nation took full advantage of during the rise of the petroleum economy (Reese and Loughlin, 93). Petroleum created a distinct challenge to these laws because oil can be removed underground by accessing the same oil deposits from various locations above land; the various oil prospects could be in direct competition for the same oil pool just accessed on differently owned land (Reese and Loughlin, 93). This situation became a burden to courts, as the competition grew during the late 19th century and beginning of the 20th century. The ‘rule of capture’ became the favored legal standard, which meant that the 1st to bring the oil topside had full ownership of the product (Reese and Loughlin, 93). The ‘rule of capture’ was a hotly debated legal…

The Local History of Osage County circa 1867 Thesis statement: Settlers came to Osage County in Missouri for the prosperous land resources of trees, hunting, rivers and hills; and to establish a community based on strong roots. Part I: Facts of population and the county itself Osage County is in Central Missouri. The county came into existence after having been detached from a part of Gasconade County. In 1855, the bottom part of Osage County was given to form the top half of the new…

Yes, I have learned to follow directions and how to solve a math problem, but I haven’t learned how to think for myself and be my own leader. The curriculum of College 100 taught me how to be a more efficient student, but more importantly, the class taught me how to be an adult in society. My teachers in high school have given us warning after warning on how they are preparing us for college, but as someone who is already attending college and has been shown what it takes to be successful, I can…

Melissa Wong
March 11, 2015
Andrew Forrester
DISC 1313
 Escaping Heartland America
 Pawhuska, Oklahoma, a town of a little less than four thousand people, is where Tracy Lett’s play turned movie August: Osage County is set. Beverly Weston, the patriarch and a heavy alcoholic, has disappeared and eventually commits suicide, leaving behind his psychotic wife, Violet, in the care of a newly hired caretaker, a Native American named Johnna. After their father’s disappearance, Beverly’s adult…

August: Osage County-Alesha Jeter ITR 1 Summary: In Mrs. Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark…

As empires made their way into these countries they also made it into the lives of the people. As mentioned above, empires are not homogenous like nationalism, they are heterogeneous being that empires can span over large areas where there are different cultures. Indigenous people are adopted into the nation’s culture and in many cases cause problems with ethnic Europeans being that these Africans, who were considered lesser human beings by many nationalist Europeans, were being integrated and…

ethnic pride has the possibility to spark the light of insurgency if the government is being unfair towards its people. Also, to maintain ethnic superiority a possibility harshness exists as well. Race: The purpose of race and ethnicity is different. Race is an identity of an individual. Besides, race can be based solely upon how people distinguish individuals depending on physical characteristics. Such as, races are assumed to be distinguished by skin color, facial type, etc. Furthermore,…

political leanings of Thai newspapers can be categorized according to how they relate to the democracy movement of the 1970s. Thai Rath and Daily News, which together account for one-half of Thailand's newspaper sales, represent the mainstream print media. Because both papers were founded before the democracy movement while the country was still under military rule, by necessity, they had to cultivate good relationships with the army and elite bureaucracy. This has led them to develop an…

Americans all over the nation have become far too accustomed to the big blue corporate stores; know as Wal-Mart, they are incapable of seeing the damage caused by the corporate Wal-Mart, which ultimately impacts all social classes. Thus, many citizens are incapable of surviving without one-stop stores like Wal-Mart. This is a big issue because Wal-Mart is the main good-provider in the U.S. This movie poster effectively utilizes imagery by using pathos to portray Wal-Mart as the middle class…

denied, which forced the Kurds to adopt another language, which made the preservation of their ethnic identity difficult (Withman, 1993: 37). An ethnic group can also actively change aspects of their ethnicity. This happened in the 1960’s when the Hausa traders in Nigeria converted en masse to a Stufi sect called Tijaniyya to justify a separate Hausa quarter (Joirnema, 2003: 38). A particular part of an ethnic identity or the identity as whole can bet strengthened or weakened or parts can get…