Talking to the Moon
John Joseph Mathews was an Osage Indian born in 1894. Thanks to the oil found on their land in Oklahoma, the Osage would be about the only rich tribe in the United States in the twentieth century. Their money allowed Matthews to go to Oxford University. In World I, he was a fighter pilot. After the war, he moved to the big city and became a writer. Wah'Kon-tah (which describes life for the Osages with their agent Major Miles on the reservation estab...
