Reckoning with Our Country's Original Sin

So one of the things that you realize when you spend time in Osage county is that the descendants of both the victims and the descendants of the murderers still live there.  They often live down the street from each other.  And one Osage woman told me, "We try not to hold them accountable for what their ancestors did."  Part of that is the story of America, this intertwining and this kind of reckoning with this original sin that is part of our formation as a country.

Source: David Grann  -  David Grann, author of "Killers of the Flower Moon", quoted in "In The 1920s, A Community Conspired To Kill Native Americans For Their Oil Money", Morning Edition, NPR, 17 April 2017, http://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523964584/in-the-1920s-a-community-conspired-to-kill-native-americans-for-their-oil-money