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The Impact of the Osage Murders

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     The 1900s, a time of wealth and new opportunities for the middle-class environment, who idolized their standard of living. Women were granted with the right to vote giving them a more powerful perspective. This decade also included the prohibition of alcohol and the increasing amount of jazz enthusiasts. Through the 1920s, new immigration laws limited the amount of immigrants traveling around and forced migration for most of the tribes. As new technology improves, oil becomes known to the world, and right over the locations the majority of natives have relocated to.        The title  Killers of the Flower Moon is a symbol to the Osage tribe stating how their resources (the oil being discovered) have been stolen as they are killed off one by one. Imagine being terminated for living over something everyone suddenly craved. The amount of greed and selfishness this takes and the fact that these types of people are flowing around the world l...