Thanks to oil deposits found on their land in Oklahoma, the Osage Native Americans had become some of the wealthiest people in the entire country by the 1920s. But before long, local white men ...

The Osage murders are a twisted, haunted real-life tale of some of the most inhumane and monstrous crimes in American history that the country's government failed to properly investigate and ...

In the 1920s, a series of violent murders rattled the Osage community in Oklahoma. They were largely perpetrated by two men, ...

The Osage murders illustrate something profoundly dark about the lie of American identity. The trope is that anyone can find success and happiness — that there’s something mythic and magical ...

The story of the Osage murders is one of greed, betrayal, and moral rot at the heart of white America. It’s also the inspiration for Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, based on ...

How government-mandated “guardianship” enabled the Osage murders. A terrible irony of guardianship is that the federal government’s legal duty to protect Native Americans did not extend to ...

The Bender family terrorized travelers along the Osage Trail between 1870 and 1873 before vanishing without a trace ...

Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" arrives in theaters and chronicles the Osage Murders, which took place in 1920s Oklahoma.In 2017, David Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker ...

The murder of Anna Brown took place in May 1921, so the title also serves as a metaphor for what happened to the Osage. Sarah Bahr is a senior staff editor at The Times.

Osage citizens in Oklahoma see the release of "Killers of the Flower Moon" as a way to embrace trauma in their past. Dozens of tribal members were murdered in the 1920s for their oil-rich land.

Martin Scorsese’s $200 million epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book, centers on the Reign of Terror, a term the Osage Nation used to define the ...

With Killers of the Flower Moon out, fans want more clarity on the Osage Murders. Many want to know if the film is based on a true story. Here’s a breakdown of the Osage Murders and the film’s ...