Packet 1: Tossup 18

These people captured a medicine bundle called the Tai-me in an 1833 war marked in their enemy’s calendar as “The Summer That They Cut Off Their Heads.” Both Thomas Jefferson and George Catlin wrote of the great height of these (15[1])“children of the middle waters,” whose animating spirit titles John Joseph Mathews’ book Wah’Kon-Tah. (-5[2])Beginning in the 18th century, these people (-5[1])expanded under (-5[1])several leaders named Pawhuska. (15[1]-5[1])Before the advent (-5[1])of barbed wire, western settlers would (-5[2])plant hedges (-5[1])of a mock (15[1])(*) orange (10[2])named for these people. (10[4])William (10[1])Hale (10[1])had a member of (10[1])this (10[1])nation (10[1])named Mollie (10[1])Kyle (10[1])poisoned (10[1])when (10[1])they were known (10[1])as the “richest people (10[2])in the world.” (10[4])For (-5[2])10 points, (10[1])the book Killers (10[1])of the Flower (10[2])Moon (10[5])discusses members of what nation who were killed for their oil headrights in an Oklahoma county? ■END■ (10[6]0[1])

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