for the guardians, that meant the end of the gravy train. it s a powerful motive, and in sybil s case, it was almost like clockwork. at the age of 21, sybil was found dead. for more than a half jury, sybil s family and descendants thought she had died of kidney disease. the story was that she died of some natural causes, and no one talked about it. that, it turned out, was not the case. years later, connor s cousin, dennis mcauliffe, began to investigate his grandmother s death and discovered a discrepancy between the family lore and the official records. and so what was discovered about her actual death? the facial death notice in the funeral home was a self-inflicted gunshot. that surprised everyone. no one knew that.
mink coat. that kind of wealth could buy a young osage a very different life than the average american, and it gave sybil an education far from home. she went off to prep school, studied music in italy, and later pursued a degree at the university of kansas. sybil was seen as, you know, really fancy young person, part of the high society of pawhuska, osage and otherwise. but no number of degrees or accolades earned osages the proper respect. non-natives still saw them as unworthy of all they had acquired. an article in harper s monthly magazine reported the osage indians are becoming so rich that something will have to be done about it. in the early 1900s, the government began to assign guardians to keep a finger on the affairs of the osage.
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In Advance of Killers of the Flower Moon, Scorsese and DiCaprio Meet With Osage Leaders
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If you’re familiar with the true story behind director Martin Scorsese’s next film,
Killers of the Flower Moon, you already have a sense of the fraught history behind it. As documented in both the acclaimed David Grann book (on which the film is based) and Dennis McAuliffe’s
The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: Oil, Greed, and Murder on the Osage Reservation a book that Grann hailed as the first major work on the subject the discovery of oil on lands owned by the Osage Nation made the Native American tribe rich. Then, in the 1920s, more and more Osage began dying under mysterious circumstances.