"Killers of the Flower Moon"
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How the Osage are fighting to protect their language from extinction
by
Ellen Rolfes
Nov 28, 2023
What may be less apparent after watching “Killers of the Flower Moon” is just how hard the Osage Nation has fought to protect and preserve its language.
How settlers abused financial guardianship in the Osage Nation
by
Sabri Ben-Achour
and Alex Schroeder
Nov 17, 2023
Government policies deemed Osages unable to handle their own money, opening the door to widespread exploitation.
How government-mandated “guardianship” enabled the Osage murders
Nov 13, 2023
A terrible irony of guardianship is that the federal government’s legal duty to protect Native Americans did not extend to protecting Osage people from the conspiracy to kill tribal members for their oil rights.
The history of economic exploitation in "Killers of the Flower Moon"
by
David Brancaccio
and Alex Schroeder
Nov 9, 2023
How settlers stole the wealth and resources of citizens of the Osage Nation, whose reservation land in Oklahoma was rich in oil.
The curse of “black gold”
by
Ellen Rolfes
Nov 6, 2023
We’re watching “Killers of the Flower Moon” in November.