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Vầng Trăng Máu: Cuộc Thảm Sát Người Osage và Sự Ra Đời của Tổ Chức FBI by David Grann

54 reviews

nodogsonthemoon's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious sad fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Genocide, and Murder

Moderate: Child death, Colonisation, Death of parent, Kidnapping, Alcohol, Grief, Gore, Gun violence, Racial slurs, and Racism

beklovesbooks's review against another edition

dark mysterious slow-paced

3.75

Really interesting investigation of a part of American history I had never heard about. Well-researched. So many names it was sometimes difficult to track. Eye-opening to the blatant injustice and racism directed toward Native Americans 100 years ago. If you don’t know about the oil that made many Osage wealthy, check into it! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder and Racism

Moderate: Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, and Death

Minor: Hate crime, Child death, Death of parent, Fire/Fire injury, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Suicide, Alcohol, Kidnapping, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

Some dead body descriptions were a little too much for me and there were several. So much racism and death!

librarymouse's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative medium-paced

4.5

This book was fantastically written and well paced, keeping me engaged the entire time I was reading it. This wasn't something that was ever covered in my schooling. I took 3 years of American history in high school and did not cover this. I'm incredibly upset about that. To know that American secondary schools still rely on the false trope that native Americans assisted white settlers, some That stuff probably happened, and now racism isn't real anymore is really upsetting. I'm really glad that there's a book that outlines the atrocities against the Osage people in such detail, so it's harder to brush these atrocities under a rug and try and write them out of history. The author's dedication to seeking out the reality of the situation beyond the efforts of the FBI is what made the book so impactful. Often when there's a book about an issue that impacted a very small group of individuals, a person from outside that group writing about it feels like an ethnography in a bad way. To know the lengths Grann went to to find justice for the Osage people, or at least reveal the reality of the situation keep this book on the side of good. The title being derived from the poem about Molly Burkhardt was a fantastic thematic choice. It made the reality of the situation more tangible to somebody is far removed from it as I am.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Kidnapping, Grief, Gun violence, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Sexism, Blood, Car accident, Child death, Colonisation, Domestic abuse, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Racism, and Death

sorrymom94's review against another edition

dark informative mysterious medium-paced

3.0

the beginning is solid but Didn’t hold my attention towards the end

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child death, Death of parent, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Murder, and Racism