Osage Murders | 2022 PBS Short Film Festival

Who’s here after watching the teaser of Killers of the Flower Moon?

Something interesting to note is how the Ossage murders took place around the same time of the infamous Tulsa massacre with both events taking place in Oklahoma State. Racism and greed can make people do the most despicable things.

Who's here after watching Killers of the Flower Moon? Great movie

I read "Killers of the Flower Moon" and it made me sick to see how the Osage were murdered for profit. It decimated their tribe.

We have these types of stories in every corner of the world where indigenous communities lived and still living. Their suffering is we can't imagine. We live in one place for lets say 50 years and when somebody comes and try to push out us from our home, what a rage we feel. Think about that these tribes lived there for 1000s of years and the way they felt we can't imagine.

The Osage were moved from their traditional country to a reservation.When the government realised the land would be more profitable for white Americans, they decided to move the tribe again.Sick of being relocated, the Osage asked to be given a place no one else would want and that is how the tribe ended up in possession of oil rich land.

Read the book…twice. Who is here waiting for the movie to premiere?

Just watched the movie. It was long but after reading articles & books. I think it was well made. Classic American Tragedy

Yes this history should be taught. We need to understand the way our cultural and economic systems make murderers of us all.

My Grandmother was Osage and ran from that fact her entire life! She didn’t even share it with her grandchildren. 😢

Ty PBS. Remember the struggle... Be the change around All You Touch.

Whites did the same thing to prosperous Blacks in Tulsa in 1921.

Such noble people and profound, wise words by Charles Redcorn at the end of this! I hope they continue to heal from such immense evil!

I still live in Osage and I feel bad for the Indians that got killed

I was raised in a Tribal community, about 75 miles east of Pawhuska. The Elders, repeatedly taught that humans, must go through a changing of their Spirit, Heart, and brain to treat another human, as the ‘whites’ did, and that is a deeply awful experience. We were taught to ‘have some sympathy’ for those, who had undergone that change. I appreciated how easy that was for me RE: many of those, doing the harm (often to themselves) in the KiotFM movie.

There's a book that came out about this called Killers Of The Flower Moon by David Grann

This recommendation populated in my feed right on time. I just saw Killers of the Flower Moon yesterday. I can't wait to read the book. What a tragic, malevolent story.

I have been waiting for over a year for the movie. I have read the book many times as my paternal grandmother alluded to having descended from the Osage. I was very young when told this and she died at an early age. In my research I wrote a letter to the author including a picture of my grandmother but didn't receive a response. I made several attempts by contacting the Osage Nation office and received a response from Sarah Oberly but she could not confirm my information. My letter to David Gann is dated May 18, 2017. Thank you. Mrs. Mona C. Murphy

I love the contrast in footage age. Gives a real sense of the span of the issue. Well done!

Fascinating how they elaborate on Hale not being a “smart criminal,” because his power and status allowed him to be vicious. But then again…a man like that’s hatred gets the best of him.