Speaker 1: This is a story about land in oil, about family,
Speaker 1: about wealth, about the stories we passed down and the
Speaker 1: stories we don't. More than a hundred years ago, the
Speaker 1: Osage Nation negotiated something unique. Okay, a lot the surface lands,
Speaker 1: but the subsurface remains as a mineral state. The O
Speaker 1: s Age knew they needed to protect the oil and
Speaker 1: gas wells beneath their reservation, because not long after that deal,
Speaker 1: oil production in O Sage County, Oklahoma exploded, bringing a
Speaker 1: lot of money to O s Age families. For the
Speaker 1: past year, I've been trying to figure out who ended
Speaker 1: up with that wealth and how they got it. The
Speaker 1: truth has got to come out, you know, and it's
Speaker 1: it's not always pretty and it's not always flattering. This
Speaker 1: story took me across Oklahoma, across Texas, into people's homes
Speaker 1: and state archives, to a sea of grass in the
Speaker 1: middle of the prairie, through over a hundred years of history,
Speaker 1: to the source of the money, land, and power that
Speaker 1: shapes Osage County today. I'll tell you, Terry, our money
Speaker 1: is involved. Seemed to pry out the windows regards. This
Speaker 1: is in Trust, an investigative podcast about a massive transfer
Speaker 1: of wealth out of O s age hands and into
Speaker 1: White Ones, and how the H nation is fighting to
Speaker 1: get it back in. Trust is a new series from
Speaker 1: Bloomberg and I Heeart Media, reported and hosted by me
Speaker 1: Rachel Adams. Heard Listen to Intrust starting on September six
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