A student passed this book on to me. Incredible story about the Osage murders of the 1920s, and the involvement of the nascent FBI. Early staff of FBI solved the case, but left many stones unturned. The facts of the story tell an unrelentingly grim history of how settlers, often in collusion with local officials and law-enforcement and judges, used violence and corruption to leave a trail of tears. Reading this 100 years after the events should still fill every American with shame. Libertarian types especially should be confronted, over and over, with this historical record. Their naive self-serving “clean slate” rhetoric is maddening.
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Friends of African Village Libraries (I post regularly here)- Visite du coordonnateur et de l’animateur de ABVBF à la bibliothèque Lumière pour enfants à Houndé
- Une sortie d’animation de la BMP à l’école E de Houndé
- Compte-rendu d’une visite à Bougnam
- Monthly libraries newsletter, Burkina Faso
- Weekly Activities in Sumbrungu Community Library in Ghana
- Résumé d’une sortie de distribution de livres dans le village Lonkuy, Burkina Faso
- Night Activities At Gowrie-Kunkua Community Library
- Deux anciens pensionnaires du camp de lecture à la médiathèque de Kaya
- Organisation d’une séance de lecture à la bibliothèque de Konkourona
- Readers at Nyariga community library in Ghana