Osage Nation members react to 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
“Killers of the Flower Moon” is about the Osage Murders and the Reign of Terror. What do members of the Osage Nation think?
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“Killers of the Flower Moon” is about the Osage Murders and the Reign of Terror. What do members of the Osage Nation think?
The venerable director knows that who gets to tell the story matters as much the story that gets told.
Martin Scorsese, the Killers of the Flower Moon team and members of Osage Nation on the importance of bringing the tribe's "rough history" to life.
<p>The new film examines the greed, racism and murder that followed the discovery of oil on Osage land, but puts the experience of Osage women at the center of its narrative. </p>
Oklahoman PAWHUSKA — The photographs are faded shades of sepia and gray, and the newspapers that chronicled the tragedies and trials are yellowed and embrittled. But for members of the Osage Nation — especially those still deeply rooted in Osage County — the history of the 1920s "Reign of Terror" remains as fresh as the under-construction wooden facades and newly painted storefronts created for the making of Oscar winner Martin Scorsese's fact-based film "Killers of the Flower Moon." "I grew up in Fairfax. Margie Burkhart, the granddaughter of Mollie Burkhart, was my best friend. S...