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The movie tells the story of the Osage Reign of Terror during the 1920s. It was filmed within the Osage Nation in Northern Oklahoma and has been generating buzz since its Cannes debut last summer.
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Join Osage News and KOSU for a bus tour featuring historic cultural sites in Pawhuska and Fairfax.
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The new Killers of the Flower Moon film is sparking conversations about Oklahoma’s difficult history. But that is complicated by a state law limiting school lessons that make students feel uncomfortable about their race or sex.
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Until recently, Native representation in cinema and television has been abysmal. That's slowly changing. The new Martin Scorsese film Killers of the Flower Moon doesn't shy away from the harsh realities of the Osage murders it depicts. But it also does something else: celebrates Osage culture.
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Now that Killers of the Flower Moon is becoming a blockbuster movie, the community where many of the murders took place is wrestling with how to open up about this painful past. One solution: rehab a landmark building.
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Killers of the Flower Moon is in theaters and already generating Oscar buzz. But for individual Osages, this movie is deeply personal.
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Three hundred bison were donated to the Nature Conservancy in 1993. Now, the herd has grown six times over and plays a critical role in preserving the tallgrass prairie ecosystem.
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In 1984, the Oklahoma Historical Society took over the management of Lillie Morrell Burkhart’s estate, and today they run the White Hair Memorial — just as Lillie wanted. But, there continue to be questions about what exactly that legacy will be moving forward.
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Lillie Morrell Burkhart was a wealthy Osage woman living near Ralston, Oklahoma in Osage County in the early 20th century. When she passed away in 1967, she had a will that clearly laid out her wishes: her home is to be kept as a shrine to her ancestor Chief White Hair. She left her land, her country house and her two headrights to the Oklahoma Historical Society.In KOSU’s third story in a series about her legacy, what would happen to that home and everything inside it would be at the center of a lengthy court battle involving relatives who were upset that Osage wealth would be leaving Osage hands once again.
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Lillie Morrell Burkhart was born in 1907, one year after the Osage Allotment Act was passed giving the Osage control over their mineral estate and enormous wealth – something that put a target on many Osages. She was an original Osage allottee, was on the tribal council, was an interpreter for Chief Fred Lookout and a world traveler.Morell Burkhart was alive during the reign of terror and watched many of her friends and community members lose their lives to a murderous conspiracy. She survived.