The Osage Murders: The True Story Behind "Killers of the Flower Moon"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 พ.ค. 2024
- Throughout the mid-1920s, the Osage Nation suffered a series of mysterious murders, and the body count kept piling up until the federal investigators got involved. But who was killing all of these people, and why?
0:00 Introduction & Background
3:25 The Murders
8:26 The Federal Investigation
16:33 The Trial
19:32 Epilogue
23:54 Conclusion
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CORRECTION: Bill Smith was not Osage, but white, and the photo I used for him was mislabeled online. I'm not 100% sure, but I believe the photo is actually of William Stepson, another victim, who was Osage. I couldn't find any photos of Bill Smith.
There have been a number of comments about the line near the end of the video where I said, "If it hadn't been for the money and oil, perhaps none of this would have happened to the Osage." I just want to say that this was not intended to downplay the role that the perpetrators played. The truth is that I couldn't think of a good way to end the video, so I went for something generic. I think the video as a whole makes it clear that the victims deserve empathy and not blame. Please don't look too much into that last line.
There's also some misunderstanding about my reference at the end to getting rich "without doing any actual work." This was not a dig at the Osage, but a dig at the perpetrators, which is why the language is a bit strong. The last thing I want is for people to think I was disparaging the victims.
Just found this channel searching for the story behind the Osage as I've already pre-purchased tickets for the opening of the movie. I love the channel , quickly subscribed and look forward to watching all previous content as well as future ..
Better to say; “ if it had not been for racism; the Osage people would have been left in peace to enjoy their good fortune ! !” This is a story far to late in the telling !
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Sir, i just watched 👀 your videos 📹 with amazing insights into the Osage ,after watching another video by a gentleman David Grann and the book you mentioned Killers of.the flower Moon.❤😮
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Many indigenous women & girls are still going missing, some found murdered today, majority unsolved. It's a scandal happening in real time.
Different reasons, though. The ones who are murdered today (like our 'Highway of Tears' in Canada) are marginalized sex workers.
@@extraolive2006 in the US, it's been around that f'n pipeline
@@extraolive2006 Sex workers or sex slaves??? There's a vast difference. It's well-known that sex slavers and cannibals, they're synonymous, LOVE dark skinned people for their victims, especially children and young women.
The men should stop it
@@fuerstinhun98 this is one fucked up world
As Native, I never knew about this until I asked my dad what movie he was watching because it woke me from my sleep. I also live in Oklahoma, and I had NO idea this happened. Tells you a lot about our country in terms of education. They don’t want us to know the bad things that have happened.
They already teach plenty of bad things. And they don't teach much of what indians were capable of doing either. So what?
@ahabgaddis7277
So what???
It matters what white people did to Natives.
It matters what our ancestors did to each other.
@@justmeboorockstar2085 this particular story doesn't matter, no
@@ahabgaddis7277 it always matters 😂
@@justmeboorockstar2085 it really doesn’t. This specific story is not important to know
The original novel written about this history by a Native American woman Linda Hogan called Mean Spirit in 1990 was nominated for a Pulitzer prize in 1991, worth a read also from a native person's perspective.
Thank you for the info. I will ck this book out
I read rhat one
thx bro
Thanks
The story reminds me of Winston Churchill's response in America to reporters during the War when asked about proposed Indian independence. "What Indians are we talking about? The Red ones who under American control have been decimated? Or are we talking about the Asian Indians who under British rule, their population has quadrupled?"
My Aunt May was living in Tulsa in the 1920's. She was set to marry an Osage Native American. The whole family loved him. Sadly, she passed from pneumonia at age 18. Im glad these atrocities are being exposed.
Did he have oil money?
You made this up. So you know how everyone in "the family" felt 100 years ago? lol
@@TheCodeGuy12 My great great grandparents kicked a daughter out of the family for singing publicly, because they considered that to be whorish. Everybody knew how *they* felt.
@@ChadBradley-hg4pk 4/10 Weak effort troll
So you think the atrocities that happened with the Native Americans were a good thing?? @@ChadBradley-hg4pk
That was a great book and unlike many other Native American tribes, the lawyer who headed the talks with the US government was adamant that the Osage retain mineral rights. The US government to this day still owes this tribe millions in a settlement that took almost 100 years to resolve.
Why am I not surprised ??
I took my DNA 3 years ago. I found out my Ancestors were Land Granted thousands of acres of land.
Fuck them they lost the war the dot deserve shit
@@brucelachniet8698you're lucky we didn't just wipe you out you should be kissing the white man's feet
The sick a-holez still owe us all!
The disgusting way our Indigenous people have been treated in their our own country...there are no words.
Yes but you always forgive and forget?
@@indigodolphin687 not always
Oh so countries do belong to a certain ethnic group? I thought that was nationalism and racist
@@indigodolphin687
Why hide behind a preaching if the basis of the religion you preach is "love your neighbor as yourself"?
@@indigodolphin687 unbelievable
Just saw the film tonight and watching this, am pleasantly surprised at how closely the film stuck to the facts of the events
"Died in 1986"
So weird that some of the people involved in this case were around when movies like "Back to The Future" were in theaters
I think it’s a big part of American Academia to try and push the narrative all this was “long long time ago” it’s a lot of indoctrination and societal conditioning to get us to this point. To the point of us being in awe at the fact of how CLOSE they were/are to our present times. It was all planned.
I watched this movie. Greed was behind all of those murders.
Hale was a wolf in sheep's clothing. What happened to Molly was really sad and maddening. Her own husband was slowly poisoning her with the guise of insulin do to her diabetes. How a man could claim to love his wife then conspire to kill her and her family is beyond reason.
I was so happy when the FBI moved in and save Molly.
My heart aches for Molly and her family. May they rest in peace.
Why don’t you shut the fuck up spoiler alert
@@mickeyoneil1015 My intentions were not to spill the beans about the movie. It was my intention to point out the senseless killing because of greed.
This is why the American Indians wish that Plymouth Rock had landed on the pilgrims.
I just saw it too and read the book last year, people don’t realize the natives of this country have been treated so terribly since white settlers first came here. This topic infuriates me so much
just like king viserys. people think these shows are just fiction. reality is worse
@@thaithaioxI am infuriated as well.
As a member of a federally recognized tribe, I can tell you that things like this are the reason why so many natives tend to keep to their own and learn from a young age that you do not disclose to non tribal members when you get per capita (if at all. depends on the tribe). Even then, we still get people who only show up around the time of year when it's distributed and try to aggressively sell us things. I have no idea how they know when we get it.
I know how they know. You said it yourself. FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED.
If it's tied to The Government, like the fellow who went to Washington, that's a red flag. All they have ever done is steal from Indiginous tribes. Fuck the wealthy Elites who do this.
Charles "Indian Charley" Curtis was VP under President Herbert Hoover. Charley's mom was mixed Kaw / Kansa / French from Indian Territory.
Charley did good in school eventually became Congressman and dealmaker.
Curtis thought all Indians should modernize, and assimilate, but his efforts were twisted by all the greedy politicians when Oklahoma became a State.
The Indian Claims Commission formed to "help & reward" the tribes would often terminate their tribal status!
The Indian Gaming laws sounded good, but casinos were built by massive loans so banks and corporations pulled-in big profits... and donated back to their favorite politicians.
Famous Cherokee Will Rogers often called them Congress Critters, and he was right!
What does that mean. Per capital?
Per capita
I just saw the movie and one of the lines that really stood out to me is a sentiment you echo here. The undertaker said The Osage don't work for a living and they got rich for nothing off oil. It made me realize that I have never ever once heard a white oil barrens or their families be accused of being rich for nothing without working. Even Paris Hilton gets accused of being famous for nothing more than rich for nothing. It really speaks to the assumption that it's natural for some white people to be ridiculously wealthy, but there is no other race in America whose wealth will go unquestioned. Or often like the Osage and Black Wall Street in Tulsa, it won't go unpunished.
you're just wrong
Exactly!
Thank you for this!
@@ahabgaddis7277about what…please explain.
However, it shall NOT go "unjudged" and believe me, it is imminent. Not only the Natives, but those ENSLAVED in this country!
I saw the movie this past weekend with my son. He is a History teacher & I learned so much about our own History. I believe it is crucial to learn as much as we can about American History.....banning books does not change a thing. (it only perpetuates ignorance, which is never good.)
I read the book several years ago. It was a great book but heartbreaking. I'm glad a movie is being made about it - it is time for us to accept our own history, the good and the bad.
I know I was shocked to find out people were greedy and injustice took place when a Rome was built...next thing u know we will be told Indiana's outnumbered whites in people's and arms and we're not angels and were hard core savages themselves not the helpless wolf lovers who talk to the sky....and they lost was all..but that can't be true
Agreed.
And it’s also time to ponder what we’d give up.
This is a tual Africa's major problem and it's still happening in Africa ?because our Leaders have compromised us ,America and France are this extorting Nigeria #Sadly
...and to STOP being complicit.
There is more bad than good.
I'm very close to this.. as my greatgrandfather was Osage .... and it is hard to continue to grasp the Evil Intentions of those men. I will always be proud to be part Osage
My Great Grandfather was W W Vaughan, My Grandfather was raised by the Osage community after his fathers murder. I am so grateful for that!
you arent part osage you are osage. dont forget that.
YOU ARE OSAGE TOO THEN. The Osage Nation does not go by blood quantum, no paper genocide- contact the Tribe. Enroll. Come home.
@@Hi98765 nah he’s white. That how he identify.
I question some of the photos in this video. Just wondering why they're all obese? I HIGHLY doubt that they were obese. Something doesn't sit well with me. Almost nobody was obese in 1920. Do you have real photos of your ancestors? I wonder how they would compare? If what I learn in history about how the native people is true, it's disgusting. Maybe the powers want us to hate each other. I would help anyone in need without ripping them off. No matter what. Blessings
I saw the movie and it’s fantastic and heartbreaking at the same time. When you think about it, the Indians roamed the plains, and the white man came in there and destroyed. Everything killed all the buffalo killed them too. Then they find oil on this group of Indians land and they go down there and try to steal all that too and when they couldn’t steal it, they tried to kill everyone off. Greed is an awful sin. Imagine everyone being killed suspiciously and when you go to the police they’re involved to and when you try to go over their head, they are also involved. What a helpless feeling. I’m glad the story was told. I had never heard of it before.
Not much has changed. Greed still rules.
iLM Indians lives matter but other cultures are soaking up all the extra attention 😢I fill for my Cherokee ancestors all ancestors black, brown and even white had to endure awful times cause of a few evil men who lied just to have followers
There are more buffalos then native Americans
You mean on the land that the Indians stole from the people before them?
Indians did not roam the plains as they had no horse the white man brought them.
A friend of mine invited me to see the movie last night. I rarely go to the movies because I don't find them to be worth the cost, but "Killers of the Flower Moon" was worth every penny - and your documentary here is also excellent! This was a heartbreaking story that I believe more people should know about.
When I was in the Military I had a close friend in my platoon who was Native American and he told us this story. I thought he was lying or exaggerating, then I went to the library (there was no internet then, Just AOL)
But I found it was all true. The tagline that says: "Greed is an Animal" is chilling and all too true.
No he was lying. And so are the anti-white propagandists in Hollywood who spread these blood libels about White people. If Whites were as vicious as they're portrayed in movies and TV shows, why is every nonwhite in the world desperately beating at the doors to get into White majority countries and move into White majority neighborhoods. If they were being oppressed/mistreated by Whites, wouldn't they be seeking greater separation from us and not greater integration and proximity.
@@BR-re7oz Your troll game is shit.
These Whites were the same ones who burned down Black Wall Street. Not at all surprised.
Yeah it's hard to belive when u know ur ancestors were all animals than humans
Animals are not evil...only inhumane people are evil.
I read this book in Taiwan, they have Chinese translations . It’s a such shocking history and also very tragic .I think it’s very important that a injustice facts like this should be known by public . Thank you so much for making this video .
Hello, I'm very curious about how this was received among the Taiwanese public!
@@carlosacta8726 Let me look into it , and let you know later .
I'm not Osage, I'm Ponca. Another Tribe forced to relocate to Oklahoma. Even though this is a sad story it makes me happy to know that other people around the world read our stories. Just wanted to say I thought it was cool you knew about this. I love history and not just ours, I've always thought the way the Taiwanese perform in their ceremonies is so beautiful. Thanks again just for knowing about us as a people!
@@zt3823 Hi, I'm from New York. There are many, many people in this country that are interested in your stories and want them to be told to the entire world!
@hsuanlin0227 hi i would also like to know how it was viewed!
Thank you for this recap. I just finished listening to the book and it was nice to have the summary and be able to see the pictures. I will be looking for other videos on your channel!
I just got out of the theater and was looking for a documentary. You did an excellent job covering it all!
I watch an unhealthy amount of videos from TH-camrs, such as yourself, about crime, murder, forensics, etc. I have heard about a great many cases. This one was not one of them. Absolutely fascinating and your research was impeccable. Very nicely done!
I would not necessarily say that learning different things is "unhealthy" my friend.
Will they benefit 🤔 from the movie?If not WHAT'S Changed? This shows progress from the small pox blankets implemented before hand?
@@scrapeteel920 Nothing has changed. Now they are not allowed to collect royalties for wind turbines on tribal lands.
@@scrapeteel920 The most important thing that changed was the fact this level of corruption was made legal not too long ago.
@@scrapeteel920 The small pox blankets story is a myth.
I just heard of this because of the movie. Its unbelievable how dark some people's souls are. So, so sad. 😢
Scorsese can't even tell you the truth about how high this goes. hale is just a minnow....
how dark yt souls are.
@@Tenyo94 What is "yt souls" please?
@dontloiter the most destructive parasite on this planet.
@@Tenyo94i think the question asked was what does yt stand for? Id be curious to know myself
Thank you for such a great in depth/ detailed summary. It was nice to watch your video after watching the movie a couple days ago. And especially seeing the real faces behind the characters in the movie.
I watched the film 2 nights ago.
While I loosely understood what had happened and more particularly why, this excellent video clears up anything I didn't understand. Thank you.
The fledgling FBI, I think, knew the motive very soon into their investigation and followed that with the likely guilty characters. As the video states it was the difficulty in linking all the complex financial payments back to the single source, Hale.
Robert De Niro is shown as a largely beneficial man (offers $1,000 reward for information on 1 killing, opens a Ballet School) and that must have confused somewhat any Osage thoughts that he was the true evil amongst their people. In contrast, when behind closed doors, his ruthless character is revealed as he plots and pays to have his dirty work done for him.
The Osage murders and the FBI investigation was featured in 'The FBI Story" starring Jimmy Stewart and Vera Miles
The author's comments at the end of the book are chilling. He says it's very likely that far more killings occurred in the area.
They definitely did. His story covers one family. This happened to many of our families.
@@KahwahShutseh I’m so sorry! 🥺
Unfortunately it is still happening to this day because Native Women are the number one people in America to go missing still. I don't know how we fix it but it feels like many in law enforcement do not care because of bitterness towards the fact we are are still around and not dead but thats just my opinion
@@KahwahShutseh American history is appalling; the truth demands to come out
There were somewhere around 100+ people killed. This family was the only one investigated and make it to trial. The attorney who was killed trying to help the Osage, no one was ever convicted of his killing. They were terrified of who was next. Some left town and others who stayed were on constant guard.
My late friend Hazel was Creek. Her family had Oklahoma oil. Whites did the same thing to her Grandmother Pittman. Ms Pittman fought the white overseers in court. Fortunately Ms Pittman prevailed.
Good . Glad to hear a happy ending for once !
Life within white proximity
Yay!
🎀Good! This evil must be stopped.🎀
My great-great Grandma was Ojibwe and had her own business in the 1880s. Hollyweird needs to pay attention to indigenous people's successes despite the genocide.😢
Is the story they dont like to tell.they dont eant to acknolege thst minorites can be rich too.
@@aliciaboricuawithout a doubt
Agree with you 100%.
They will never do that. Just like they will never admit that the so called blacks are Native Americans and were not shipped here on boats from Africa. They’re in business to hide the truth not tell it.
Thank you so much for this very thorough summary of the Osage Indians and their history. I saw the movie and it was remarkable.
My grandmother HATES the term Native American. My grandmother says we are 1st people. She also says you never trust the government. She hasn't been wrong so far
How does she feel about the term "indigenous people"?
@@knife-wieldingspidergod5059 hahahaha...she says it's a fancy word for native.
@@ginagarcia1934I don't get it, so what word/term would she like?
@@misterbobby8913 Op said their grandma prefers “1st people”, but this is a personal preference because used terminology is “Native American” or “indigenous person”. It’s like how the correct term for me is “African American”, but most of us refer to ourselves as “Black”. Just use the used terminology, but if someone requests you use their label, use it.
didnt get 1st in the war with european settlers/conquerers so that name doesn't fit
My grandmother was born on our reservation in 1920, and my brothers, sister and I grew up there, our grandparents raised my brothers and I, but my parents raised my sister. My grandmother had told us about when she was younger, they had to be put in caves at night because the Catholic priests would try to kidnap kids and use them to build the San Diego Missions. Grandma said the men would take turns watching the kids, protecting them.
Organized abrahamic religions are as corrupt as the money is...very bad...
How sad It really hurts your people, they are very strong and honorable, they really deserve all the respect from the United States for all their crimes, they are criminals,
Your grandmother lied to you. I've met Catholics, I've met old White people. None of them seemed like the kind of people who go around looking for children to kidnap and enslave. Hollywood movies and TV shows aren't real. There's a reason everyone in the world is desperate to migrate to White majority countries and move to White majority neighborhoods. If nonwhites were truly being oppressed by us, then they would be seeking greater separation from us, not greater proximity.
@@BR-re7oz Just stop. You're embarrassing yourself.
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This helped me to understand better things I missed or didn't understand from the movie. Really good narration
Thank you for the story and research. Keep doing this to shed as much light and truth as you can 💚
This happened to me and my sisters.
I was human trafficked by Mike and Kaye Byers of Winfield Missouri in 1983
They stole my mother's death benefits.
They live in a beautiful home In Winfield on Lone Dove Ln.
One day the right attorney will help me get my home back
-COMANCHE NATION
😥sorry this happened to you
Prayers to you & your family for restoration!😢
Prayers from a Ponca brother!! I hope you get justice sooner rather than later.
ACLU too in St Louis. Was Mike Byers also known as John Byers?
@@sweetsexypickles
John Michael Byers
My siblings and I built the flower beds out by the mailbox when I was their slave.
Log house with a large side deck and front porch
-COMANCHE NATION
The Scorsese movie debuted at the Cannes Film Festival last week and it was very well received with many critics saying it’s DeCqprio’s best work. It’s a Martin Scorsese movie and you know it will be great. Scorsese said that Apple gave him everything he needed to make the movie. I can’t wait to see it.
It also stars Tantoo Cardinal, Lily Gladstone, and William Bellau
If you don't mind name of movie 👍🤠🇺🇲
It’s called Killers of the Flower Moon based on a novel of the same name. The trailer is out and it looks like it’s going to be great.
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I’m an Apple employee. Just saw the movie today at Steve Jobs theater. It was an exclusive advanced prescreening for employees. Scorsese was here too. It’s undoubtedly one of the best movies of Scorsese and Leo. So heartbreaking and powerful
Thank you for this video. The trailer for the movie made me curious to find out what happened here. I don't enjoy super long movies (esp with excessive graphic violence, as this one apparently is) and who knows how loyal the filmmakers are to the historic facts. So I was glad to find your video to learn about the actual truth of the situation, exactly 100 years ago. Fascinating--though barbaric--history. 🙏
The film is based off of a book by the same name, so it’s not supposed to be accurate like a documentary.
Intended to skim this video. Ended up watching every second. Now I'm subscribed. You, sir are a talented narrator, and the content, tone and pace of this video is exemplary. Please never, ever use AI voiceovers. Creating good voice narrations is an art. Please keep that in your repertoire always; there will always be a place for it.
Same here..
There's a film dramatization of a story very similar to this called " Thunderheart " starring Val Kilmer. It's about a half Indian detective played by Kilmer who's assigned to investigate the m*rder of a Native American on a reservation which leads to a much wider conspiracy that puts his life at risk.
It's one of Val's best and a great movie that should be seen. Especially if anything about the story covered in this video is compelling to you.
My favorite film. Love Val Kilmer.
Great movie.
Tonight! Thanks 😊
@@coryd2668 How cool. I did a rewatch after not seeing it for over a decade and learned that the film was inspired by real events in the 70s. Which was tragic to see was still happening well after Moon's story took place in the 20s.
It was a little slower than I remembered for the first third of the movie. But stick with it because it picks up. And Ray's journey (Kilmer's character who was an FBI agent not a detective as previously stated) still holds up well and is what makes the movie.
Hope you enjoy it.
The ending for those criminals was poetic. The man lived until the ripe old age of 94, in abject poverty, with most of his life behind bars too.
What are you talking about the main criminal got a Pardon by having so much political power and still got to visit Oklahoma as he pleased he lived until his 80s in a retirement home not on the streets
@gio-gk6nz because of his ... affiliations. they wrapped it all up and pinned it on Hale, but i guarantee you the thing went all the way up to rockefeller
@@Darkness-ie2yl most likely
Yup, glad they shined light on Tom White's perceptive mind & doing due diligence in making sure the Native people got as much effort as possible as fellow Americans & human beings deserving of rights.
It was one of the most difficult & first big cases the FBI had, and instilled a legacy of the types of agents they wanted to recruit.
Lmao that’s cute that you think that.
Thank you for bringing us this story.. The narration was very informative. I look forward to the movie now because of it.
Omg i saw the intro and I'm in love this channel already!
The movie was released in the US on 10/20/2023. I saw it yesterday and found it to be a very good production with excellent acting by Leo De Caprio and Robert DeNiro. The movie is ~ 3.5 hours long and really kept me interested throughout. I highly recommend seeing the movie. This documentary is excellent!
I saw it today as well and I never read about this gruesome history and was ver moved by how the the Osage were mistreated. 3.5 hrs long but well worth the time:
What's the movie called?
Killers of the Flower moon. It was released in theaters last week (US).
Why see a movie, when the book is much better and closer to the truth….
@@kaypee4704 movies add a sense of reality. I relate to movies better than books as long as the movie is accurate and there is nothing wrong with my preference.
I seen the movie last night. It's long but worth the watch. Damn shame what they did to Molly and her family.
You might have watched a movie but you didn't learn grammar
And the dozens of other Osage people who were also killed but never found justice.
So what , this is not grammar school.
Justice for Charles Whitehorn, William Stepson, the man investigating, for D.C. and stabbed two dozen times, Henry Rohn, and W.W. Vaughn, the lawyer who was also stalked and murdered, along with all the countless unnamed ones who should be remembered.♥️
@maydavalle...true. There were many honest whites killed who tried to help the Osage. Great comment!
Your presentation was well done and informative. Thanks - such a tragedy! Apparently a lot of people are now looking at the Drummond family to try and make sure they obtained their Oklahoma land under the right circumstances.
They gonna be looking for a long while because they own 433,000 acres.
Very dubious that they acquired that much land under the "right circumstances".... if there is any right circumstance in which a white guardian steals money and headrights from the rightful indigenous owners
Just watched the movie.....Scorsese did an excellent job in keeping to the facts you have stated here. The movie is rivetting and unsettling, but well worth watching. Performances by all were profound.....
Too long
@@user-tm8sc2kz8f Your comment is too long
The Native Americans have been placed in difficult positions since the beginning, and never given the respect deserved. My respect for these people and their culture, needs to be taught to all Americans across the board.
Amen the Kids need to learn Native American History
All 🇺🇸 AMERICAN PARENTS & OUR States Representatives should DEMAND A true AMERICAN HISTORY 101 CLASS start ASAP‼️
Just like your film,
it should be SPOKEN by the people whom lived through it themselves❣️
🗣What’s being taught to OUR children is all
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If you're looking to find out more of native history try reading Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. I'm half-Mexican 1/2 native and my Mexican Mother gave me this book because she wanted me to understand more than what they were teaching me in school. There is a HBO movie But of course it's not as good as the book that can't fit everything into it but both are very good. Just wanted to say thanks for supporting our history at a time where people want to erase it. I'm from Oklahoma and we are still dealing with a governor who thinks. We have too much say and too much power and actively tries to strip us of it. We stood together as one and said NO which is very rare for all tribes to stand together It only happens in times of crisis. All history is beautiful even in its tragedy and I just want to say again Thanks for supporting ours
If they deserve so much respect then how did they lose so badly.
@@hankschrader7050 You think We Lost? We're still here in America until the day we all die, You failed you could not kill us and no matter how much you downplay it our history is still taught. But if you want to know the true secret it's because they attack villages filled with women and children while the men tried to run to get the army to Chase Them. But they stayed and attacked the women and children Because that was the US army government way dealing with Natives. When they couldn't defeat the men in battle they killed the Buffalo because that was the last thing they could do was kill our food source. I have no anger against your ignorance it's not your fault they don't teach proper history in school, One day. 2050, caucasians and their descendants become the minority and I can't wait to see it, you should be honored to know what it feels like to be a Native watching the land change before your eyes
Bless you, son, for not using a computer voice on your videos. 🥰 Very interesting story.
❤️Thanks for infinite love and support which has brought me this far. It has been a hard time for me but your support has got me standing even in difficult times. What country are you watching from?
@@LeonardoDiCaprioofficls America. 🙂
Computer voices suck!
Yes! Thank you for using your own voice. 🙏
This is informative and sad story to listen to. Good job on bringing light to it as it’s the first I’ve ever heard of it and only became aware as of the new movie out
This was so in depth and educational. Thank you for your work on explaining this.
At first I thought a story of this sort would be way outside of a filmmaker like Scorcese's wheelhouse, but as things started to fall into place it became clear that this was exactly the kind of story Scorcese excels at. Also it seems the Osage tribe had a tremendous amount of input into the production. Hopefully with so many a-list industry people involved this sad chapter in American history won't be forgotten, or dismissed.
It's about as harrowing a crime story as there can be; it's right in his wheelhouse!
I wonder how it will do at the theater.🤔 I will definitely be there ❤❤❤The TRUTH exposed
I sure hope he does the story justice since not enough was served at the time of these hideous crimes. 'Nothing about us without us' should be in affect when making films about particular cultures.
Scorcese is getting on in years and wants this to be both true and great....I hear DeCaprio has given his best performance...perhaps because he understands the character and the conflicts between love and success pretty well.
He sure knocked it out of the park. In a way when you think about it it's a movie about organized crime and gangsters. Except the crime organization is all of the town/county - the "good christian" folk.
My daughter is Choctaw and we live in Oklahoma. My daughter has this book. I hate what colonization did to the earth. There didn't use to be fences and borders and people's traveled freely and migrated with the seasons. No one owned anything but wanted for nothing. There used to be a society amongst the people's of the America's before colonization. Trading occured. Spirituality. Governing. Yet the colonizers claimed superiority over them because of MONEY. Money is the downfall of humanity.
Lmaooo u live in a delusion. The noble savage😂
Ask the Apache what the commanche did to them and took their land. Ask the Mexicans what the Indians did to them. Yall are the worst for ya bs.
I don't know why we buy into this narrative about what life was like for Indigenous people before colonization. You realize that they also had war among tribes, fought over territory, murdered and enslaved each other right? Committed full on genocide at times. Or do you think all of that was invented by Europeans?
@@rickybobby6760White Liberals need something to feel morally superior about, they're now the saviors of us po colored folks
No it's the negative spiritual LOVE OF MONEY..
@@rickybobby6760but that was them doing it to their own people, not people coming across oceans to deciminate people and holding themselves supreme..
I've just seen the film and read the book a year ago. Your vlog is excellent! Thanks for sharing!
I just saw the film on Sunday and was very impressed with the production by Martin Scorsese. However, I listened to the book first as an audiotape and read the book years later. I loved the book. This was a very good retelling of the story. The scales of justice were not well served in the killers' punishment since they were released from prison too soon. I recommend that everyone read the book. He has also written "The Lost City of Z."
Thank you for this in depth analysis. This brings dignity and humaneness to the Osage Nation.
They were and are already dignified and human.
This was just a retelling of the book. Read the actual book.
@@rachelallen5534 Yes they were, but I see what the OP meant though.
Thanks for sharing this i appreciate you for this. Peace love and blessings to everyone on here ❤️🙏
I was lucky enough to be the sound effects man in the final radio scene
My husbands family lived through this. He remembers the stories his grandparents and aunts and uncles told and how they lived in fear
Sort of like how they always lived. Indians were very violent against eachother and Europeans.
I'm living through this right now. Freemasons killed my mother and father in law. This is a standard masonic operation. It doesn't just happen to native Americans.
This hits me hard, as my grandmother White Feather was a full blood Shawnee, from Illinois. She was born 1884 in Old Shawneetown and died in 1929 in Indianapolis. She died young st about 44 or 45 of pneumonia.
She suffered most of her life from racism against Native Americans. She was forced to assimilate into white culture and she was very sad. I wish I had known her.
I hope this movie and the underlying movement to tell the truth about how the first peoples were treated helps to bring healing to all. What I have studied about native cultures shows me they loved each other, this planet and life. All cultures have problems and negative aspects, but that is no reason to just wipe them out. I will keep your Grandmother White Father's story in my heart and hope her spirit has found or will find rest and peace.
My grandma was USA Indian background but claiming to be white Americans... very weird and I'm proud of my bloodline.
Hawaiian living in Australia 🌏🦘
As do I.
@@AronToulouse what part??
@@AronToulouse I use my real name as I have nothing to hide...
Politician in my family USA...
Great job, thank you for making this video
Thanks! Well said! It is a necessity to bring these stories of truth to all.
Thanks so much!
This was very well done. Thank you for teaching us some otherwise forgotten history.
This is merely a cliff notes version of the book. Just a retelling of what’s in the book.
@@kevinjones5560 I guess that means we shouldn't be thankful for the effort that he took to make the video and share the story. Glad you saved me from feeling any sense of gratitude, I salute you 🫡
My Mom used to talk about these killings, she heard the stories from her parents, she had some Osage cousins, the Osage were not the only ones this happened to.
You did a great job. Thank you for making this video. I'm going to watch the movie this afternoon.
I don't recall ever learning about this in school, and I'm glad I saw the movie... it brought this tragedy to my attention. Such a shame this even had to happen in the first place. I'm sure the book is just as good, if not better than the movie
I'm from Oklahoma and my mom is part Osage; the tribe has been in the area since long before it was Indian Territory as they lived in what is now Kansas, especially.
Sorry for the atrocious ACt committed to your descendants 😢
This entire American country is yours and native Americans every state is native American.
@@karenbrooks7613 You're sweet, sis; my dad's white/Shawnee so no hard feelings.~
@@desertsdetour3624 And yours as well; FJB.
Its very sad that this story isn't more well known here in the United States. A very important part of history!
It's considered critical race theory to expose facts. People might go looking to equal the status by seeking reparations. Of course all that money and wealth may be in the hands of someone living today.
The archeological history and cultural history of the Americas was written by Christians. Hence why the country didn’t learn about such things. But ppl in Oklahoma grew up hearing stories like these. Christians owe reparations, for their involvement with Native Americans and the slave trade. Christians are the ones the screwed up everything!
No, we are the greatest country in the world! We are perfect! Hide our atrocities and wrongs. Bury it! Then, point the finger at other countries for their same wrongs to make us feel even more superior. Our country is so f***ed up in so many ways!
Yeah just learning now ❤
"We're still here ... We are not going anywhere." - Native Americans 😔
"Slavery, Colonialism, Colonization & Genocide" are all evil things done by evildoers.
For God's honest truth, pls read the informative multi-pages comment by 'Lonely Alaskan' at, "Complete History Of Indigenous America Before Colonialism/Chronicle"... It's on TH-cam.
Very well-narrated and well-put together documentary.
Very interesting I love these classic stories keep them up subbed and liked
I just finished reading this book and I am so glad it will be on the screen in October 2023. There are many more murders that were never solved that relate to the oil and the money. I highly recommend the book, too!
It’s absolutely unbelievable how greed can drive people to commit indescribable atrocities. May God always bless the Osage people!
Just found Your channel And loving it ❤ Tfs
This is such a moving story and extremely, extremely sad! What even sadder is native Americans still suffer to this day! We took everything from these people and left them on land that no one wanted. Greed is such a devil and it doesn’t take much for it to rise again. From a small child I always thought why are they so poor and live so badly. When I grew up I realized we took everything from these tribes and the government did nothing but told them to live on renovations through out the United States. I don’t like gambling but it’s a income that has helped many tribes to continue to grow! In many areas of the United States these tribes have many women go missing and our government doesn’t do anything to really help. This story really moved me and makes me angry that in all these years nothing hasn’t gotten any better !
This video about what the calculated acts of horror and what happened to this Osage Native American family over an extended period of time was extremely well done. Thank you for sharing it!
My deepest sympathies for this terrible lost of your family. ❤️
Thanks for this, I have wondered about this for some time.
Thank you for this video, I've never heard of this story. It's very sad. I can't wait to see the movie, wish is in theaters now.
My father is Osage. As am I and my daughters. I am not ready to learn the details or read the book or watch the movie , or even the trailer.
The horror of learning my People’s history … never ends.
There is ALWAYS more.
And it will always be exploited for profit. Told by not us.
My mother was Oglala Lakota. As am I and my daughters and her children.
#stillhere #landback
If the United stated really dealt and acknowledged it’s origin, well there’s not enough money on the planet for reparations. This country is built on death.
Luckily, unlike many other stories, Osage Nation & some of the families were very involved in the making of the movie, and leadership has been pleased with the outcome, per interviews.
You need to watch the movie
Grief has its own path and you are right to wait until you are ready. As a white woman with my own reasons to want full freedom and joy for the indigenous peoples I want this film to tell the truth and break the hearts of all who can rise up and make change happen.
My best friend’s sister is a casting agent and she cast many of the Native Americans in the movie. She worked on Dances With Wolves, Bury My Heart At wounded Knee and several other films. Look up Rene Haynes, she’s done pretty well for herself coming from Great Falls, Montana
I know a guy who was an extra in this movie. He’s Puerto Rican haha. I think he said he’s in a couple bar scenes. Talked with him at a friend’s house on the 4th of July in Newcastle.
@@JudgeDredd_Newcastle Australia??
@@dannylujan3619 lol. Newcastle, Oklahoma
Saw the movie. Your (best friend's) sister did an excellent job!
ok? why are you trying to make it about you and your cousin?
Excellent breakdown of the book and the movie. Thank you!
Excellent narration!!! It helped us understand the film
I am from Oklahoman. This horrific story was not taught in Oklahoma history classes.
I'm glad to hear Oklahoma history classes stick to the truth then. They don't just teach disgusting anti-White blood libels designed to provide ideological justification to anti-White racial hatred and political campaigns to disenfranchise and dispossess White people in their own nations.
Of course.
It nor the riots in 1920s Tulsa. Nothing mentioned in the Oklahoma history books about any of these events.
Of course not.
Same.
Marty never ceases to amaze me with choosing stories that have yet to be developed into a movie.
An excellent work. Thank you young man.
Excellent overview of the film. Watched the film last weekend. Sad but a story that needed to be told. I had never heard of it before.
As an Australian this story has a particular resonance as across this vast country Aboriginal tribes were decimated and had their land taken with the loss of great mineral and resource wealth. Generations of tribes were misused as slaves on the many huge cattle stations. The little money sometimes doled out for sweat and tears work was then often stolen by guardians. Aborigines seen as having committed crimes were shackled in chains and marched through outback areas to harsh prisons were they were held before appearing in court usually without legal representation other than that presented by the police who had imprisoned them. Punitive raids were widespread leading to massacres and terrible injustice. In the north of Australia a police force comprising Aborigines recruited in the south were used to murder and wipe out communities regarded as a threat to the white colonists who had spread across the nation like vicious locusts.
Very heartbreaking for sure. Theyre still being marginalised
Sad ,human nature is greedy and cruel
Unfortunately, America is not isolated when it comes to crimes against Native Tribes.
It's happened in more places than we would like to admit. 😢
What is the movie called?
@@raquelb731 killers of the flower moon.
I really appreciate all you have done to make sure these appalling criminals get attention.. even if they escaped the noose at the time.. at least we know the truth behind horrific actions because of people like yourself!! And for that Sir I commend you! I honestly wish there were more people who could stand up and tell their story
Freemasons. Well protected.
Very well done. Best TH-cam clip on this story
Your review was very well done.
Excellent job! I’m a HUGE buff and lover of history. I never heard of this story but thank you for this video. The research and care you put in this is very evident!
Just like TULSA OK.
@@MattyNelson-rs3ikand rosewood, FL. I grew up within 200 miles of rosewood yet never heard a word about the Rosewood massacre until the movie came out! Sad, just effing sad! 😢
William Vaughan was my Great Grandfather. Horrific story. My grandfather was raised by the Osage community after his fathers murder.
wow....
Amazing
You have everything to be proud of .
Im so sorry for your loss!😢
William Vaughan, what year was he born.
This video was well put together.
I had never heard about the Osage murders. Sad, but fascinating story. Beautifully narrated. Looking forward to the movie later this year.
Thank you for this excellent video! I am so interested in the Scorsese film (Leo plays Ernest Burkhart) and it has received some great reviews so far…this is such an important story and so many of us have never heard of this nightmare.
Leo has cruel eyes, to me.
Like so many never heard of BLACK WALL STREET, HOW MANY WERE KILLED.OVER A LIE.imagin bombs drop on your town,by the u.s.milatary..😮
The film is excellent and this video was really helpful in clarifying details.
Man’s greed and how we treat eachother is shameful rip poor souls
What an excellent job in summarizing such a complicated plot and excellent book! I read it too as soon as I heard there were plans in the works for a movie. The book was great and I had planned on reading it again once more before the movie, but your excellent video was the best summary and better than any trailer for the movie that anyone had attempted (without there being ANY trailer yet.) Thanks for this excellent piece of work!
I been wanting to read this book for some time. I just recently heard it was being made into a movie. By Martin Scorsese nonetheless. I’m so glad that ppl are finally paying attention to Native American history.
My grandfather was a judge at 21 in kingfisher Oklahoma.
His wealth was staggering and consisted of mineral rights. The entire history of this man sounds oddly suspicious considering.
It goes hand and hand
#landback
You mean 5 decades. 50 decades are 500 years.
Are u going to cancel your grandpa? Haha
@@00qwert83 Are you a total idiot?
I loved this video. I watched it three times now. I like the sampler quilt and love the aqua and orange fabric quilt.
I have known about this story for at least 60 years. I'm 76 now and this was common knowledge of what happened during this time and I was raised in California.
How am I just now finding this gem of a channel? As a connoisseur of history this is a absolute delight. Keep the fantastic historical stories coming....just fabulous absolutely fantastic!!😊
Connaisseur.😊