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From the commentary, "But for over a century, rather than making payments to Indian landowners, the government routinely mismanaged those funds, failed to provide a court-ordered accounting of them and systematically destroyed disbursement records."
Friday, director Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” premieres in theaters. It depicts how, following the discovery of oil on their land, members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma are murdered for their rights to it.
White settlers targeted Osage Nation members to steal their land and the riches beneath it. But this crime is just the tip of the iceberg.
Reprinted from The Conversation
An Osage delegation with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House on Jan. 20, 1924. Bettman via Getty Images Torivio Fodder, University of Arizona Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Based on […]