In Killers of the Flower Moon, true crime reveals the paradoxes of the past
- Written by: Paul Giles, Professor of English, Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, ACU, Australian Catholic University
Martin Scorsese’s latest film Killers of the Flower Moon is based on a 2017 book of the same name by David Grann that chronicled a true story of Osage Indians being systematically murdered in the 1920s.
Fifty years earlier, the Osage had been driven from their ancestral lands in Kansas to a reservation in Oklahoma deemed by the Department of...
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