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Excerpt from The Washington Post, “Putting Osage women in control of their own images” By Thomas Ryan RedCorn, November 21,

“Photos like these of Osage women have a complex history.&#;

“Like many Americans, Osage women in Oklahoma in the early s loved to put on their best clothes and have their portraits taken. The photos were a nice gift for family or descendants and an expression of self-respect that attacked prevailing American attitudes about indigenous people. But the practice quickly went bad.

“After being removed to northeast Oklahoma in the s, Osages had negotiated themselves into an advantageous position. Oil was “discovered” on their land, and by the s, Osages were the wealthiest people per capita on the planet. But as American “discoveries” so often go, murder followed — hundr Red corn recipes.