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With a best-selling book and upcoming movie, the tragedy of the multiple murders of Osage people in the 1920s is getting a lot of attention. Descendants of the victims and Osage tribal members are expressing excitement and apprehension about the pending movie adaptation of the book, Killers of the Flower Moon. Director Martin Scorsese met with Osage Principal Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear to discuss filming in Oklahoma. Big name stars like Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio are part of the project. We’ll get perspectives from descendants about this and other accounts of the tragic chapter in Osage history.
Guests:
Jim Gray (Osage Nation) – great grandson of Henry Roan, and former principal chief of the Osage Nation
Yancey Redcorn (Osage Nation) – COO of White Buffalo Co-op and his dad was the author of “A Pipe for February”
Archie Mason (Osage Nation) – member of the Osage Nation Congress
Break 1 music: Gold Skies (Neon Natives Remix) (song/single) Neon Natives (artist)
Break 2 music: Leadership Song (Naaí’áanii Biyiin) (song) Radmilla Cody (artist) K’é Hasin (album)
