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.