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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Start date: September 1, 2024

Finish date: September 30, 2024

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Dec 31, 2023 Shruti morethanmylupus rated it liked it · review of another edition

This has been on my TBR for years and I finally prioritized this read this before the movie came out.

This was a hard read for a number of reasons:
1/ The treatment of the Osage was atrocious and appalling
2/ The book centers the white narrative as both the villains and the saviors and the
3/ Most of the book lacks context and only fills in relevant elements of centuries of genocide, land grabs, and numerous other atrocities where the author thought they made sense

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May 13, 2017 Lori rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A captivating story of a dark period in history, of which I knew nothing. The greed and cunning that white people went through to obtain the headrights of the Osage Indians is astounding. At least 24 people were murdered for their rights and royalties to oil under their land in Oklahoma. Others were murdered just to cover up. While two people were convicted, others went free or were never caught.

This book is an easy, must read. I wouldn't be surprised if history repeated itself. ...more

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Aug 22, 2017 Marie (UK) rated it it was ok · review of another edition

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well I am obviously a one off but i found this book ponderous and stilted. I felt it was filled out with pictures that really added nothing. Most other reviews are more than complimentary but i just didn't feel it. The author is addicted to speech marks where i felt she could just have used prose to report the same events. ...more

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