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Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ but the biggest thief of Native wealth was the U.S. gov't tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/rep
Martin Scorsese's “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in the 1920s, and delves into racial and family dynamics that rocked Oklahoma to the core when oil was discovered — but this crime is just the tip of the iceberg.

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@TucsonSentinel The book does make it clear that the local and state governments were not just complicit but enabling the looting of Osage wealth.

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