Well. he tells me that to understand what happened, you have to start at the beginning. long before henry roan, the osage controlled a massive territory that covered most of the midwest. here they hunted buffalo on the great open plains. when the white man came, the osage were forced to give up more and more of their lands. and in the 1870s they made a strategic decision. to buy a rocky piece of lands in oklahoma. that no one wanted. >> the conventional wisdom of the day was if we moved here, they wouldn't want anything to do with us. because the land isn't suitable for farming. >> it's kind o...