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For the Osage Nation, the betrayal of the murders depicted in 'Killers of the Flower Moon' still lingers

  • Written by Shannon Toll, Associate Professor of Indigenous Literatures, University of Dayton
imageAn Osage man on the Arkansas River sometime between 1910 and 1918 – about a decade before the Osage Reign of Terror.Vince Dillion/Oklahoma Historical Society via Getty Images

This article contains plot spoilers of “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

The sheriff disguised her death as whiskey poisoning.
Because, when he carved her body...

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