I just came across this and thought I’d share: Debs, in one of his final articles, using the Osage murders to excoriate the crimes committed against American Indians and the grotesquery of the “White Man’s Burden.” The evidence that is coming out of Oklahoma in connection with the murderous conspiracy of long standing to rob the ignorant and unsuspecting Osage Indians of their inheritance and of the wealth that has come to them through the discovery of oil on their lands, is shocking and sickening to the last degree.
Debs: "The White Man's Burden" (1926)
Debs: "The White Man's Burden" (1926)
Debs: "The White Man's Burden" (1926)
I just came across this and thought I’d share: Debs, in one of his final articles, using the Osage murders to excoriate the crimes committed against American Indians and the grotesquery of the “White Man’s Burden.” The evidence that is coming out of Oklahoma in connection with the murderous conspiracy of long standing to rob the ignorant and unsuspecting Osage Indians of their inheritance and of the wealth that has come to them through the discovery of oil on their lands, is shocking and sickening to the last degree.