As many of us are doing the important work of educating ourselves about black lives and black history, I hope we’ll also add to our list books like this one, which teach us about indigenous lives and indigenous history. This book deals with a spree of murders of Osage Indians, perpetuated in order to rob them and their heirs of their rights to the natural resources (read: oil) under the ground of the land they owned. The book also discusses the racist context in which these murders occurred: wealthy Native Americans who weren’t allowed to manage their own finances. Instead, to protect the fragile feelings of less-wealthy Whites, the US government made Osage Indians a ward of the state, assigning “guardians” (who were always White) to decide whether and how the Osage could spend their own money.