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Book Review: Osage murders explored in Killers of Flower Moon

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by writer David Grann details the murders of dozens-if not hundreds-of Osage Nation citizens who were targeted because of their oil royalty payments. New York Times literary critic Dwight Garner offers a review:

Killers of the Flower Moon describes how the Osage people were driven from their lands in Kansas onto a rocky portion of northwestern Oklahoma-out of sight, out of mind. It became apparent within a few decades, however, that immense oil deposits p...