White comes to understand just how racist, corrupt, and almost sociopathically uninterested in recognizing the Osage tribe’s humanity the entirety of white Oklahoma society is. The vast network of conspiracies, heists, and knock-off jobs involves men and women of all stations, and it seems that these people will stop at nothing to take as much as they can from the Osage Indians—who, without any friends or sympathizers around, cannot make anyone pay attention to their plight.