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PAWHUSKA The photographs are faded shades of sepia and gray, and the newspapers that chronicled the tragedies and trials are yellowed and embrittled.
But for members of the Osage Nation especially those still deeply rooted in Osage County the history of the 1920s Reign of Terror remains as fresh as the under-construction wooden facades and newly painted storefronts created for the making of Oscar winner Martin Scorsese s fact-based film Killers of the Flower Moon. I grew up in Fairfax. Margie Burkhart, the granddaughter of Mollie Burkhart, was my best friend. So, we always grew up knowing that story. We knew the traumas of what happened to her family and to other Osages. But most of the world does not, said Danette Daniels, an Osage businesswoman who still lives in Fairfax and owns the Water Bird Gallery in downtown Pawhuska, just a block away from where much of the filming is underway.
Arizona-born actors Tatanka Means and Cara Jade Myers will star in an upcoming film by Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese that also stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
Means, a Chinle-born actor and comedian, is slated to play FBI agent John Wren in Killers Of The Flower Moon, according to Deadline. Myers, who was born in Phoenix and raised in Prescott Valley, according to her IMDB page, had been cast as Anna Kyle Brown as of
The movie is based on David Grann s bestselling 2017 nonfiction book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI, which depicts the FBI investigation that ensued after a string of murders on the newly oil-rich Osage Nation in Oklahoma during what some know as the Reign of Terror in the 1920s. Brown was the first victim.
Variety has the news that Martin Scorsese’s
Killers of the Flower Moon cast has added Tantoo Cardinal, Cara Jade Myers, JaNae Collins, and Jillian Dion. The film is based on the book by David Grann, a true story about a series of murders targeting wealthy members of the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. Cardinal, whose credits include
Dances With Wolves, will play Lizzie Q, the mother of Mollie Burkhart, the character played by Lily Gladstone. Myers, Collins, and Dion will play Mollie Burkhart’s sisters, Anna, Reta, and Minnie. Per the Variety report, Cardinal is of Dene, Cree, Metis, and Nakota heritage; Myers is an enrolled member of the Wichita Tribe; Collins is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes from Poplar, Montana but is also half Apsáalooke (Crow); and Dion is a Canadian-born actress of Plains Cree, Metis, and French-Canadian descent, raised in a Dene/Metis household.