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Pod Crashing Episode 203 With Rachel Adams-Heard From In Trust A hundred and fifty years ago, the Osage Nation bought a stretch of prairie the size of Delaware, in what's now Oklahoma. The Osage owned the land and everything beneath it. Today, much of present-day Osage County has left Osage hands. In some cases, appropriation was swift and brutal: Dozens of Osages were murdered for their share of lucrative mineral rights to this oil-rich land, a period often referred to as the Reign of Terror. But other transfers of wealth played out more subtly-dollar by dollar and acre by acre, over decades-helped along by policies created by the US government. Learn more and follow our listener guides at bloomberg.com/intrust.