Review: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

This is a few years old and I'm disappointed that I've just now read it. Grann is an impeccable journalist and this was so well-researched and full of details--which even led to him uncovering new details about crimes that occurred a century ago to help a family find closure. This tells the story of the Osage people, who were forced out of the land they had lived on for hundreds and hundreds of years and made to relocate to a new designated parcel in Oklahoma. Well joke's on you, U.S. Government, because their new land turned out to be one of the most oil-rich in the country, turning the Osage into millionaires. But of course, the corrupt and white man-filled government did everything they could to limit them. And just when it couldn't be any worse, the wealthiest and most powerful of the Osage started getting picked off one-by-one via gunshot wounds, longterm poisoning, and more. It's unfortunately a story you'll read over and over again--how the Indigenous People of our country have over and over again been screwed over by those who came after the fact. Ugh! Just read it. It's amazing and also is about how the FBI came to be.

Rating: 4

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