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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
David Grann does such a good job in putting together the story of how the Osage were murdered for their land. We see this from the Osage point of view, the principal investigator who was one of the first heads of the FBI, and also the investigation that Grann himself did as he gathered information for the book.
It's a story of how greed and the belief that the Osage were not people, only pawns that needed to be moved to get more riches in the hands of white people who felt it was their right to have these lands and riches.
Unfortunately, the main story told in this book is only one of many others that couldn't be solved or simply were thought to be natural deaths. The worst thing is that the Osage now live with the questions of what might have happened to their ancestors and also the loss of all the benefits and money that were taken from them.
This is a part of history that has been covered up and ignored but it is one that needs to be known so that things like these don't happen again. It also brings awareness at how indigenous people still need proper acknowledgement of their rights.
It's a story of how greed and the belief that the Osage were not people, only pawns that needed to be moved to get more riches in the hands of white people who felt it was their right to have these lands and riches.
Unfortunately, the main story told in this book is only one of many others that couldn't be solved or simply were thought to be natural deaths. The worst thing is that the Osage now live with the questions of what might have happened to their ancestors and also the loss of all the benefits and money that were taken from them.
This is a part of history that has been covered up and ignored but it is one that needs to be known so that things like these don't happen again. It also brings awareness at how indigenous people still need proper acknowledgement of their rights.