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Nola Short Story

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As a consequence, she decided to send her young daughter, Grace Blanket, to live with her cousin, Moses Graycloud, and his wife, Belle Graycloud, so as to know about the white world. Later, Lila sent her two twin daughters, Sara and Molene to live with Grace and go to school. Molene died due to ''an illness spread by the white men who worked in the railroad'', and Sara became paralyzed (Hogan, Mean Spirit 7). In the early 1900s, each Indian had been given the choice to select any area of land not claimed by the white Americans to farm or sell. After finishing her study, Grace and Sara ''in total ignorance, selected dried-up acreages that no one else wanted. No one guessed that black undercurrents of oil moved beneath that earth's surface''. After being called ''The Barren Land, Grace called it ''The Barron Land'' upon discovering that it was rich with oil (Hogan, Mean Spirit 8). After becoming the richest Osage woman, Grace was murdered by the oil man, John Hale, who sought to control her land. The Grayclouds adopted Nola, Grace's young daughter, who witnessed her mother's murder. Nola suffered for years due to the tragic loss of her mother. Thereafter, Sara Blanket died as a result of an explosion which completely devastated her house. Despite being innocent, Benoit, Sara's husband, was accused of killing her by the Sheriff who jailed him. Thereafter, Benoit was hanged in his cell. Stace Red Hawk, a Sioux Indian who worked for the Bureau of Indian affairs in

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