Round 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 “children of the middle waters,” whose animating spirit titles John Joseph Mathews’ book Wah’Kon-Tah. Beginning in the 18th century, these people expanded under several leaders named Pawhuska. Before the advent of barbed wire, western settlers would plant hedges of a mock (*) orange named for these people. William Hale had a member of this nation named Mollie Kyle poisoned when they were known as the “richest people in the world.” For 10 points, the book Killers of the Flower Moon (10[2])discusses members of what nation who were killed for their oil headrights in an Oklahoma county? ■END■

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