Book Study: The Killers of the Flower Moon, David Grann

  Published: 2017, 352 pages Powerful Book that Martin Scorcese adapted for his new film.  The book focuses on the Osage Murders that followed the Tulsa Massacre.  kThe osage Indians were being relocated from their Kansas reservation, and when they got to the Oklahoma hill country, they retained the mineral rights on their new land.  At the same time the landrush in Oklahoma was on--and white men claimed Indian land because they did not protect themselves with original "headrights."  Grann researched The Reign of Terror on the Osage reservation:  Osage tribesmen who originally relocated were awarded with "headrights' which made these Indians the richest men and women in America.  Grann focuses on Mollie Burkhart who is trying to protect the lives of her sisters, which are ruined by the barbaric white men to marry these women and then plot their deaths to obtain the headright they inherit by marriage.   Dialectic Journal/ Lesson Plans: 77 pages; 23,877 words, many visuals