legend has it they descended from the stars and landed on a vast territory in the middle of what is now the united states. the land would eventually make the osage some of the richest people in the world. that's a fancy car. >> lincolns and cadillacs were their favorites. >> the objects of racist envy. >> people were resentful. why should that dirty indian have all that money? >> and targets of manipulation, bribery, and worse. >> they -- >> they were systematic. >> everybody was in on it. >> i'm headed to oklahoma to learn more about the osage, how they became so rich -- >> the rush was on. >> -- and who wanted them erased from their towns. so she was 21 years old. and ultimately from american history. >> america was built on the graves of indians. they didn't care if we died. they didn't care if our children died. >> it wasn't okay then, and it's not okay now. you know, murder is murder. ♪ ♪ >> one night, almost 100 years ago, a 40-year-old man named henry roan went out for a drive. a few days later, his car was found on the side of a road. inside, henry lay dead, slumped over the steering wheel. >> he was shot from the back of the head. >> jim gray and his son are henry roan's descendants. >> my mom named me james brown gray, and when i had my own son, i named him henry roan horse gray. my family never tried to sugar coat the story. it was very upfront, you were named after a man who was murdered. >> we both carried that same burden to know who we descended from, know what kind of challenges that he paid the ultimate price for. >> why was henry roan killed, and why is it still so raw for his family nearly a century later? i'm about to find out henry's murder was part of a calculated plot to kill hundreds of osage in the prime of their lives. it's not a story you'll find in the history books, but it should be. is osage history american history? >> osage history is american history. it's just that american history has chosen to forget certain chapters. >> a former chief of the osage nation, jim knows that story well. he tells me that to understand what happened, you've got to start at the beginning. long before henry roan, the osage controlled a massive territory that covered most of the midwest. here they hunted buffalo on the great open plains. but when the white man came, the osage were forced to give up more and more of their tribal lands. and in the 1870s, they made a strategic decision to buy a rocky piece of land in oklahoma that no one wanted. >> the conventional wisdom of the day was if we moved here, they wouldn't want anything to do with this because the land isn't suitable for farming. >> it's kind of amazing to look out and think about the fact that 150 years ago, the osage people settled here because they wanted to be left alone. but there was no peace for the osage. by the time jim's ancestor, henry roan, was born in 1883, the government had declared an all-out war on native culture. >> we need to stop them from being indian. we need to christianize them. we need to reeducate their children, and this is what they did. >> henry roan and tens of thousands of native children were forced to leave their families to attend boarding school. >> they didn't just, you know, okay, we're going to pick up your kids and we're going to take them to this school down the street. no, they took them five states away. shaved their hair, washed their mouths out with soap when they ever spoke their language or tried to practice their traditional ways. kill the indian, save the --. that was the policy of the day. >> but it didn't end there. >> the federal government was like, we need to break up their communal land holdings so that they are without a tribe. >> the osage had always shared their land. in 1906, they were forced to split their territory into private lots to weaken the unity of the tribe. but they held on to one seemingly small concession, collective ownership of what lay beneath the ground. not only did you own the land, the surface land, but you also owned -- >> the subsurface. that would become a game-changer two years later. >> ten years after they brokered the deal for the mineral rights, the osage revealed they were sitting on a gold mine. some of the largest oil deposits in north america. in the 1920s, these oil wells littered this landscape. they were everywhere as far as the eye can see, and that's what brought people from all over the world to this part of oklahoma. ♪ >> the oil tycoons all descended, and they bid for leases to drill osage oil. and the osages became incredibly wealthy. >> over the next two decades, the osage nation would produce more wealth than all of the american gold rushes combined. and little towns like bahuska, not much more than a trading post at the center of the osage reservation, were transformed. . this was pahuska before oil. and then after oil was discovered almost overnight, pahuska turned into this. with oil royalties rolling in, life for the osage changed in an instant. ♪ >> lincolns and cadillacs were their favorites. >> look at the women golfing too. >> yeah, absolutely. in their dresses. >> with this newfound wealth, meg and sean standing bear's grandfather, eugene, purchased a 16 millimeter film camera. >> that's eugene right there. >> that's your grandfather? >> that's him. >> behind the camera, eugene's wife mary documented a life that took on a hollywood glamour. >> look at those planes. >> my grandfather loved airplanes. >> did he own his plane? >> yes. >> these things aren't things you'd expect to see on a reservation in the early 1900s. >> they drove the finest cars, dressed in beautiful fur. >> look at those outfits. >> yeah, and they had indoor plumbing and italian tile. >> rosewood trim on everything. >> were there a lot of servants? >> yes. >> oh, yes. >> who were working for the house? >> there were white servants? >> white servants? >> oh, yeah. >> by the end of the 1920s, oil pumped today's equivalent of almost $3 billion into the tribe's bank account. every osage got an equal share called the head right, which made them some of the richest people in the entire world. for non-osage, it was an outrage. so many of these images are of your family and other people just really living these incredibly lavish lifestyles. but at the same time, are you saying -- >> well, it bred a lot of resentment. >> reporters around the country flocked to oklahoma, filing sensational stories of indescribable wealth. >> they were writing about the spending habits or the lavish lifestyle, making us look like cartoons, you know, like story of an osage that had a brand-new car and drove it till it ran out of gas and then just left it, like we were just idiots that just fell into this money and we deserved to have it taken away from us. >> who was benefiting from the osage back then? >> the bankers. they would charge exorbitant fees for loans. store owners would charge osages ten times more than they would charge ta non-osage. >> but simply cheating the osage wouldn't make you rich. there was a lot of money to be made and a way to do it that could set someone up for the rest of his life. >> and osage could dive down a flight of steps. they could drive their car off into a ravine. there was an incredible incentive to kill osages and -- >> that's what happened. >> that's exactly what happened. >> announcer: "this is life" with lisa ling, brought to you by megafood, for what matters. black friday is back at lowe's. shop now for the best deals. make everything twice as nice, and twice as merry. don't miss black friday shopping and cyber steals. or buy online and pick up in store. lash impact goes sky high. lash sensational sky high mascara from maybelline new york. limitless length plus volume. sensational from every angle. lash sensational sky high mascara. only from maybelline new york. ♪ lisa here, has had many jobs. she's worked in retail during the holidays. as a barista during rush hour. and a nanny to a couple of rambunctious kids. now, all that experience has led her to a job that feels like home. with home instead, you too can become a caregiver to older adults, with a career that makes a difference. ♪ apply today. ♪ walmart's deals for days isn't over yet. this cyber monday is your last chance to score big online starting sunday night. don't miss out on walmart's deals for days. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ grandma, how wide are two reindeer? twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine... ♪ ♪ we've been waiting all year to come together... it worked! have a happy and safe holiday season from lexus. ♪ in 1918, molly burkhardt thought she had the perfect life. she was married to ernest, a man she loved, and was close to her three sisters, minnie, anna, and rita. but then everyone around molly started dying. first, minnie passed away from a mysterious ailment. then anna was found shot and killed at the bottom of a remote ravine. two months later, molly's mother, lizzie q, got sick and died quickly. to molly, it seemed like poison, but she had no proof. >> molly's family starts dying. molly's families family starts disappearing, and there's no good answers. >> molly went to the authorities, but they dismissed her claims. two years later, her ex-husband, henry roan, was also found shot and killed. and then molly's third sister, rita, and her husband died after a homemade nitroglycerine bomb was planted in their home. >> it exploded, and obviously you can see the wreckage. so just in complete ruins. >> she tells me about all the people molly lost. >> anna, lizzie q, rita, henry roan. so this is the family that was targeted. >> but the burkhardts weren't the only victims. by the summer of 1923, over two dozen osage had been murdered. the shocking number of deaths caught the media's attention. they coined it "the reign of terror." >> people were being killed left and right. it was terrible. they never knew who was going to be next. >> meg and sean tell me their grandparents feared for their lives. they even hired bodyguards. your family really felt that threat? >> absolutely. >> oh, my grandmother used to have flashbacks in her late 80s. >> she would have nightmares. >> some say it was a blessing, some say it was a curse. >> the terrorized osage hired private detectives to look into the murders. but when nothing came of it, they sent a delegation to washington. >> they went to d.c., and they said, look, we're not leaving until you send someone to investigate because they're killing us. they're killing us. >> but help wasn't free. the osage had to pay the government $20,000 to take the case. >> the bureau of investigation was just getting launched. j. edgar hoover was its first director, and he was trying to find something that would raise the profile of this bureau, and he found it. >> the reign of terror murders would become the first major case in the history of the fbi. for two years, undercover agents worked to dig up damning testimony, like a man who told investigators he was hired to do the dirty work. here he's saying he wanted them knocked off. just go down and plant a stand in the house, and when they come in, kill them. and guess who put out the hit? molly burkhardt's husband, ernest. at the time, molly held six shares of oil head rights, worth close to $1 million in today's money. and if she were to die, her husband, ernest, would inherit everything. but investigators quickly discovered he wasn't operating on his own. the ringleader was actually his uncle, the most prominent and trusted white man in the osage community. >> william k. powell, aka the king of the osages. he was the mastermind behind the plot. >> bill hail had come from texas to be a rancher in the late 19th century, leasing grazing land from the osage. he had become one of the wealthiest non-natives in town, and in 1912, he recruited his nephew ernest to join him in osage country. >> so the plan was to kill everyone off and then eventually -- >> so basically ernest burkhardt infiltrated his wife's family. >> that's exactly what he did. he infiltrated. he married in. he had children, but he also committed this horrendous murder plot so they could have head rights and money. >> by 1926, the fbi had gathered enough evidence to arrest william hail and ernest burkhardt for the murder of molly's sister, rita. >> when i tell you that osages had a trust issue, that's putting it as mildly as i can because they didn't know that the person that has married you and had two children with you was actually plotting to kill you the whole time. that's a level of evil that it's hard to get your arms wrapped around it. >> the trial took place here in the pahuska courthouse. climbing these steps, i can't help but wonder what it must have been like to be molly burkhardt, to watch your own husband take the stand for helping murder your family. in the end, ernest confessed and was sentenced to life in prison for the killing of molly's sister and her husband. hale also got life for ordering the death of henry roan. the cases were seen by all white juries, and their convictions were seen as victories by the fbi and the osage people. but then people kept dying mysteriously, and there has never been justice for anyone else since these trials. and then something happened. people just stopped talking about all of it. after the trial, molly divorced ernest and retreated from society. the rest of the world thought the story ended here. hale and burkehart had been found guilty and sent to prison, but hundreds of other deaths were never investigated. with the killers still at large, many osage were afraid to seek justice and kept silent. but one man is finally ready to share his family's story on camera for the very first time. why is it important for you to want to share this story? 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>> he was poisoned, my understanding, stricnine. >> it was during a night out on the town that somebody slipped poison into joe's whiskey. >> he came home, and he walked into the front door, and he fell over, and he started foaming at the mouth in front of his family. through research by other people, it was found that he was poisoned. >> joe left behind six children all under the age of 16. one of them was ed's grandmother, cora. >> they put my grandmother through hell. you're 7 years old, and you watch your father die the way he did in front of you. she didn't deserve that, and the pain's still here. all my relatives that are descendants are still feeling it today because they know the pain that their parent and grandparent went through. >> ed's daughter, shannon, the editor for the osage newspaper, went digging for answers. why had her great-great-grandfather been poisoned? she learned he likely lost his life over a simple plot of land, and once again, the mastermind behind the reign of terror was involved. >> it was over 40 acres of land that bill hale and associates wanted, and he would not sell it. and then lo and behold, some papers turn up after his death with his signature that said he sold that 40 acres to them. i don't think anyone in this family believes that. we think they killed him and forged his signature, and nobody could contest it because he's dead. >> why do you think the story of the osage reign of terror should be told in history books? >> people should know the truth. i wish osages would tell their stories more. i know they know. i know they have family stories because we're not going to get past this until we learn about it, process it, and then we can move on. >> while some families know what happened to their loved ones, others never had an inkling that anything was amiss until decades later. >> this portion here is the older part of the cemetery. >> joe connor grew up hearing stories about the heady times of the 1920s, especially about his stylish aunt, cybil bolton. >> you could see her in her high heels, ankle bracelets and furs. she was quite the fashion plate. ♪ >> it was the roaring '20s, and like so many during this time, cybil was all about fashion and flare. when she turned 21, she treated herself to a mink coat that cost $1,200. today that would be a $14,000 mink coat. that kind of wealth could buy a young osage a very different life than the average american, and it gave sybil an education far from home. she went off to prep school, studied music in italy, and later pursued a degree at the university of kansas. >> sybil was seen as, you know, really fancy young person, part of the high society of pawhuska, osage and otherwise. >> but no number of degrees or accolades earned osages the proper respect. non-natives still saw them as unworthy of all they had acquired. an article in harper's monthly magazine reported the osage indians are becoming so rich that something will have to be done about it. in the early 1900s, the government began to assign guardians to keep a finger on the affairs of the osage. >> if you were a full blood osage and you had all this money, the government would appoint a white guardian to manage your money. >> can you explain what the objective was, and how did one even become a guardian? >> they would go to local businessmen, lawyers, upstanding person in the community or whatever, and they would be given the responsibility for an estate worth millions of dollars. >> a full blood osage could be shackled to a guardian their whole lives. >> so you have this very paternalistic guardian/ward relationship, and the idea was that we weren't somehow mentally capable to take care of our funds. >> people like sybil, though, who had a white father, were deemed more capable and could take control of their money when they came of age. for the guardians, that meant the end of the gravy train. it's a powerful motive, and in sybil's case, it was almost like clockwork. at the age of 21, sybil was found dead. for more than a half jury, sybil's family and descendants thought she had died of kidney disease. >> the story was that she died of some natural causes, and no one talked about it. that, it turned out, was not the case. >> years later, connor's cousin, dennis mcauliffe, began to investigate his grandmother's death and discovered a discrepancy between the family lore and the official records. and so what was discovered about her actual death? >> the facial death notice in the funeral home was a self-inflicted gunshot. that surprised everyone. no one knew that. >> but the family didn't believe that sybil, who was a new mother, took her own life. instead, the conflicting facts led them to suspect foul play, and the man in charge of her money. so she had a guardian? >> she had a guardian who was her stepfather. this fellow -- his name was woodward -- was a prominent man. he was instrumental in gaining wards that he could be guardian of as well as passing them out to people. >> a.t. woodward was his name, and it turns out he had several other osage wards. all four of them died young under his guardianship. as the pieces started coming together, everything pointed to one thing. >> she was murdered for her head right, probably by her stepfather. >> but a.t. woodward was never charged with any crime. there's never been any justice? >> very little. ♪ >> so sybil bolton is here. >> yes, sybil is up the hill in the mausoleum. it was built the same year that sybil was murdered, and she was one of the first encrypted here. >> yeah, it's beautiful. where is sybil? >> this crypt right here in the middle of these three, and it's kind of hard to see. >> oh. bolton, sybil, 1903-1925. so she was 21 years old. >> she was a wealthy, privileged person, but it didn't protect her from being murdered for her money. >> when you think back on how much your people were exploited and then to know that it happened in your own family -- >> mm-hmm. >> -- how does that make you feel? >> well, there's a discriminatory kind of culture that i've been sensitive to all my life even though i don't look particularly indian and i can pass certainly as a white man from time to time. but these murders made me very sensitive to these issues, and so one of the things that you live with is that some of your neighbors are now descendants of perpetrators, which really makes it hard. >> sybil bolton, joe bates, henry roan, mollie burkhart's sisters and mother. so many people lost their lives during the reign of terror. their families left traumatized by fear and grief. but during these turbulent times, the osage lost something even greater, the very soul of their tribe. and they became determined to get it back. what if younger looking skin could start at midnight? 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[ applause ] >> what did that entitle the osage? >> the united states government finally recognized the osages had their own sovereignty to form their own government, determine who their members are, and define their own future. >> acknowledging our ancient tribal order, period. >> over the next year, the tribe formed a special commission to write an osage constitution. >> we were embarking on something brand-new, but we were doing it together, and we were doing it without great white father telling us how to do it. >> polls are open. that's the first vote. >> in 2006, the osage held the first tribal election in 100 years that was on their terms. >> what a great day for the osages. it's a great day for democracy. >> now every osage had a voice and a vote. they worked tirelessly to rebuild the tribe, and soon families who left during the reign of terror started moving back to help recover what was lost. [ speaking foreign language ] >> so the osage language was all but dead until the new constitution committed resources to adults and kids learning how to speak a language that might have been lost forever. so it's really -- what's happening behind me. today, nearly 10,000 osage are living in oklahoma, carrying on the traditions of their ancestors. how do you say it? >> e lonch ca. >> e lonch ca. what is e lonk ca? >> e lonk ca is a dance. >> every summer, osages from all over the world come to celebrate, cook, and eat together as one tribe. >> when i think of osage culture, i think of e lonch ca. i think of our traditional dress, our osage food, and all of those things are distinctly osage. >> woo, it's looking good. shannon and her father have worked hard to keep their traditions alive. today they're sharing some family recipes that are over 100 years old. what an incredible experience. are you one of the millions of americans who experience occasional bloating, gas or abdominal discomfort? taking align every day can help. align contains a quality probiotic developed by gastroenterologists. it adds more good bacteria to your gut to naturally help soothe your occasional bloating, gas and abdominal discomfort. support your digestive health with align, the #1 doctor recommended probiotic. try align today. and try new align fast acting biotic gummies. helps soothe occasional digestive upsets in as little as 7 days. 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[ laughter ] you could cook this at home, on the stove, and it will have a taste. but it's not out here. it's not here. and when it's here, it's so much better. >> that is looking good. >> come and eat. what will happen now is that we are setting the table for you. you have some fruit on your plate. you have a sack underneath. it gives you something to take from this, take those blessings with you. how we were taught was all of our visitors sit down first, then we sit down, after everybody has gotten their fill. >> so you are not going to be sitting with me. >> no, not today. >> since my crew and i are guests -- >> that's how i've learned it. eat last. >> by tradition, we must be fed before ed, and the family can eat. >> my team, come sit down. wow. what an incredible experience. we are honored by tradition. >> we just try to make it simple. >> having our team sit down before your whole family. it occurs to me that so much has been taken from your people. yet you continue to just give. >> but that's who they were. those who those people were. joe bates, and that family back there, they were giving people. >> your great grandfather, joe bates, if you could share words with him -- >> i would just like to give him a hug. that's it. >> it's amazing, ed, that this is a man you never met. >> yeah. >> your great grandfather, yet this is so deep for you, it's so raw for you, still. >> this happened. but now, we're not going anywhere as a people. have at it. >> oh, boy. >> this is the greatest feeling in the world, seeing people eat your food. there is nothing better in the world. i would like for you gentlemen to please go sit down and eat. >> well, this is all we can show you because even if you are a cameraman, if the osage say eat, you eat. lash sensational sky high mascara. only from maybelline new york. walmart's deals for days isn't over yet. this cyber monday is your last chance to score big online starting sunday night. don't miss out on walmart's deals for days. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ make more holiday at lowe's. get the samsung smart dial washer that learns and recommends your favorite cycles. wash and dry in under an hour with super speed. black friday is back, and with it, the deals. and save up to $750 dollars on select appliances at lowe's. where's mom? she said she would be home in time for the show. don't worry sweetie, she promised she'd be here for it. oh! nice shot! thanks! glad we have xfinity. with wifi speeds faster than a gig. me too. 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[screams and laughter] yeah! xfinity brought us together after all. get started with xfinity internet and ask about wifi speed fast than a gig. click, call or visit a store today. after the white men arrived, the osage lost just over 95% of their homeland. osage nation principal chief jeffy standing bear has made it his mission to reclaim their territory. >> land is critical. and maintaining yourself as a people, as a nation. >> in june of 2016, ted turner put his 43,000 acre ranch on the market, land the osage lost after the government broke up their reservation in 1906. the tribe offered $74 million. money they had raised through casinos they started building in 2002. before he accepted, turner, an environmentalist, made one request. i want this land preserves for generations to come. chief standing bear had the right answer. he said, it won't be just generations. it will be forever. what's it like for you to be standing on land that you all have gotten back? >> it's spiritual and political. it's a place for the bison, a place for us to live our lives somewhat as our ancestors did. >> what's the future of the osage? >> self determination. the stuff that happened in the past, we need to remember it, never forget it, but learn from it and go forward. >> while we were victims of that time, we don't live like victims today. what makes us osage is that we always move forward. that is what i think henry, my great grandfather would say, keep going forward. >> george scoot, edmond right behind jaden. >> the osage won't let that dark moment in their history define them. >> jason, scoot in. >> they continue to held on to the memory of their ancestors and keep their traditions alive. today, three generations of osage gather. and we get to witness a new chapter in our history. okay, everyone. >> even though they tried to take our culture from us, it's still here. and it's as strong today as it has been. >> everyone say "osage". >> osage! >> i can only see it getting stronger. >> sounds like there's this rebirth happening. >> there is. you can see people wanting that knowledge. the participation is growing again. our young people want it. they want what their people had. i see that in our kids. >> my kids are aware that they are osage. and they are very proud. i think they are going to be even more dedicated than my generation is. >> there is that sense of community like there will used to be here. >> everything is coming full circle. it's time to be osage again. on april 22nd, 2020, a young army soldier went missing from her base in texas. months later, the tragic truth behind her disappearance came to light. >> human remains have been identified by army investigators as missing specialist vanessa guillen. >> her family claims she was the victim of sexual harassment before she died. >> how can this happen on a military base? how can this happen while she was on duty? >> we are many the worry about our troops when they go to war. they are supposed to be safe on their own home turf.