Killers of the Flower Moon

Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000

In the early 1920s, the Osage Nation was the richest group of people per capita on earth. Pushed off their land during America’s westward expansion and resettled on a stretch of Oklahoma nobody else wanted, they’d had the astonishing luck to be sitting on one of the largest oil deposits in the country. It should have been a happy ending. Instead the money marked them for death. White neighbors, court-appointed guardians, and in some cases their own husbands began killing Osage members to seize their share of the oil — a slaughter that ran far deeper than the official record ever admitted.

David Grann on SummaryShelf

Killers of the Flower Moon