‘Killers Of The Flower Moon’ Bares Horrors Perpetrated On The Osage: How That Attention Could Help A Tribe Reclaim Land & Fortunes That Were Taken Under Murky Circumstances
deadline.comWhat does it take to heal when surrounded by descendants of those who committed the ultimate betrayal 100 years ago? The vibrant, thriving Greenwood section of Tulsa, Oklahoma had set up an economy so strong and affluent that it was called Black Wall Street.
That was until it posed a threat to the White status quo, who in an act of racialized vengeance almost a century ago left the streets strewn with charred rubble and the bodies of its African American residents.
Just an hour west and beginning around the same time, a sinister darkness had cast its shadow over Osage County, and the Osage tribe whose members became among the country’s wealthiest citizens when land they were assigned, and more importantly the mineral rights beneath that land, turned out to have vast pockets of oil.
White locals flocked to the area and clung to the tribe’s members like parasites. Dependence bred resentment and vastly overcharging tribe members wasn’t enough.
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