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A review by lory_enterenchanted
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
3.75
Incredible story of evil and corruption. I got confused at times with all the names, could have used a character list, so some details may have escaped me but I could follow overall.
For me, the real evil starts with commodifying the Earth ... it would have been interesting to know more about this from the Native point of view. The white men first took their land from them, pushed them into a supposedly poor area, then oil made them rich, and the whites took their money and their lives. Who wins, who loses, when we put a price tag on the material world? As we now are learning, when earth is transformed into money it becomes poison for the future, unless we can raise our consciousness to restore wholeness, to find the real spiritual gold in the world of matter. Reading this story is a way to see a larger picture than people at the time of the murders were able to do, and in that way maybe bring some redemption. But it's all terribly sad and strange and hard to see how healing can occur. I would like to hear much more from the Osage themselves.
For me, the real evil starts with commodifying the Earth ... it would have been interesting to know more about this from the Native point of view. The white men first took their land from them, pushed them into a supposedly poor area, then oil made them rich, and the whites took their money and their lives. Who wins, who loses, when we put a price tag on the material world? As we now are learning, when earth is transformed into money it becomes poison for the future, unless we can raise our consciousness to restore wholeness, to find the real spiritual gold in the world of matter. Reading this story is a way to see a larger picture than people at the time of the murders were able to do, and in that way maybe bring some redemption. But it's all terribly sad and strange and hard to see how healing can occur. I would like to hear much more from the Osage themselves.