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In the 1920s, innocent members of the Osage Indigenous American tribe suffer from a series of unusual, inexplicable murders. The FBI launches an investigation under the guidance of J. Edgar Hoover.
Killers of the Flower Moon" is a nonfiction book by David Grann that tells the story of a series of murders of Osage people in Oklahoma in the 1920s after oil was discovered on their land. The book focuses on the Osage Nation's wealth, the murders, the subsequent FBI investigation, and the historical context of the events. The book details how a group of white men, including cattle baron William Hale and his nephew Ernest Burkhart, orchestrated a plot to steal the Osage's oil wealth by murdering them and taking control of their headrights.
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