Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
A couple of years ago, I wrote up some reflections about the eradication of Greenwood, the "Black Wall Street" , of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Part of this was inspired by the conversation brought up by my friend Eric Stover who worked on the Nova program devoted to that tragedy. I'd be less than honest if some of the writing wasn't also inspired by the streaming series Watchmen , a particularly moving mini-series with its roots in the event and which bring it to the forefront of cultural dialog and resurrecting it from being lost to history. The Osage Murders began in 1921 and continued through 1925, wherein 60 people (at least, the number may be 150 or higher) - mostly Osage tribal members, were murdered. As happens with the marginalized and disenfranchised in the United States, the wheels of justice barely turned at all, until the Osage people simply couldn't take it anymore. Some people may balk: but the Osage were wealthy! Oil had been discovered on their land and they...