Cinema legend Martin Scorsese's next epic, "Killers of the Flower Moon," is taking on the story of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during economically fraught and racially segregated 1920s America. Scorsese's film is adapted from nonfiction book of the same name written by investigative journalist and staff writer at the New Yorker, David Grann.
The book and film chronicle the story of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, who at the time were the richest people per capita in the world because they were displaced onto and owned one of the largest deposits of oil in the United States. The Osage were so rich that they built, owned and lived in mansions, rode in chauffeured cars and sent their children overseas to Europe to study. Not at all the picture Americans have about Native American people in the 1920s.
