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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. A historical, non-fictional novel written by David Grann sheds light on a painful and unexplored chapter in American history, which raises questions about power, greed, and justice. Through in-depth research, Grann highlighted the shocking and tragic events that unfolded in the early 20th century involving the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma, who were the beneficiaries of immense wealth due to oil discovered on their land. The book focuses on one Osage family, whose female members died, successively, in mysterious and violent circumstances. The investigations that followed demonstrated that these killings were not isolated incidents — other Osage tribe members also met similar fates. Grann notes that the death toll continued to rise and eventually reached the ears of the newly-formed FBI uncovering that non-native men tried to acquire the inheritance of the oil-rich land by marrying into the Osage tribe and then orchestrating the deaths of their wealthy wives. The book has been recently made into a film directed by Martin Scorcese and stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, and Lily Gladstone.

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