UNITED STATES: Martin Scorsese’s new film “Killers of the Flower Moon” recounts how the Osage nation of Native Americans gained significant oil wealth in the early 20th century and the murderous plot by outsiders to seize it.
Ahead of the movie’s US release, AFP looks at the real-life story behind the film, which was adapted from US author David Grann’s 2017 book of the same name.The Osage, a Native American nation which grew out of the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, was forcibly relocated by the US government in the late 19th century westward to a reservation in what would later become the central state of Oklahoma.
In 1921, Congress passed a racist law requiring Native Americans to have a guardian of the oil wealth appointed until they proved their “competency.” Rita Smith, another of Mollie’s sisters, and husband Bill died after a bomb exploded in their home in 1923.The Osage nation states on its website that at least 60 people were killed during this period, but that there were potentially even more murders, as some suspicious deaths were never investigated.
Grann alleges in his book that other murders, which went without convictions due to a lack of evidence, are almost all attributed to people from outside the nation seeking to seize Osage oil rights.
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