For the Osage Nation, the betrayal of the murders depicted in 'Killers of the Flower Moon' still lingers

An Osage man on the Arkansas River sometime between 1910 and 1918 – about a decade before the Osage Reign of Terror. Vince Dillion/Oklahoma Historical Society via Getty Images

This article contains plot spoilers of “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

The sheriff disguised her death as whiskey poisoning.
Because, when he carved her body up, 
he saw the bullet hole in her skull.
Because, when she was murdered, 
the leg clutchers bloomed.
But then froze under the weight of frost.
During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga Tze-the, 
the Killer of the Flowers Moon.