If one were asked to name the richest nation in the world ho would probably say Great Britain or America. But he would be wrong, for the distinction belongs to the' Osages, a band of American Indians of the Dakota stock, settled on a strip of land in Northern Oklahoma. This section of the Indian reservation contains a wealth of oil properties which make the land -valuable. For the leases of the land to various oil companies the whole tribe is paid nearly two million pounds a year in rent. As there are barely 2000 members of the tribe, settled in four hundred families, the average income of each family is approximately £SOOO a year. Therefore, as a race they are wxthoot qpeatkm the wealth** in the
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18569, 19 December 1925, Page 14
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