The Impact of the Osage Murders

    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 like a continuously growing web. As the white culture increases, most natives have had to put effort into blending in and not being treated as inferior, the killings making this even more difficult as it's assumed to be a white criminal. To this day, equality has been practiced, and yet, the need to get along and blend in overrules.

    Through one of the perspectives of an Osage, Mollie, watched as her whole family got targets placed on their backs. Her loved ones have been eliminated through shooting, poisoning, and explosions, along with anyone else who investigated these killings. How would it feel to have everyone meaningful including oneself attempt to be killed only because of being wealthy and living on the liquid gold of society. These killers literally go to limits where they will marry and have children with the ones they have targeted, doctors will cover up the crimes, neighbors won't say anything about what’s happening, and much more. It is not very rare to see hurtful, harmful, and cruel individuals walking around the world now days. It's insane how much society has flipped itself over time. Mollie’s tribe has been pushed to move to a new location, leaving their lost members and memories. I can relate to this dreadful feeling at some extent as I was born and raised in a small town in Pennsylvania. My fathers job required us to move and at the time, I had to leave my friends and family behind. Me and my brother had just celebrated our 8th birthday party with all of our friends and it was very upsetting to realize how hard it would be to communicate without cell phones and each others numbers. It’s a hard thing to do, leaving a part of you behind, but that’s what makes a strong individual who they are in the end. 

    The FBI is the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The job of these people is to investigate crimes and threats to national security, gather intelligence, and assist other law enforcement agencies, the list continues. Tom White began an investigation into the murders of the Osage and to apprehend the mastermind behind the action. This was the beginning of the FBI as the murders here were the group's first major homicide investigations. Even today, investigating crimes can be very time-consuming and a lot of work. The difficulty in looking into these murders knowing the killer will come after you now is a lot to take in. From the time the FBI became known, has the government improved the efficiency of this organization? And by how much? It's so fascinating to notice how far society has advanced and chosen to organize itself.

    This nonfictional book really illuminates the tragedy hidden
behind the happiness. I would rate this book with a 8/10 as it’s a very interesting story about a woman and the hardships she has endured. It was a challenging book for me to read as couldn’t keep track on how much Mollie has really been through. How people could be so bad to the point where they will kill or have victims kill themselves. Try looking into the mirror and understanding how the world treats each other as it might be surprising to see how much the good outweighs the bad or vice versa. The intense lives of this family and tribe is strongly shared with
the world as a new motion picture is soon to come out! What aspects of this story will it highlight? How much of the people today can be compared? Are people this cruel? Is the world just as bad as it's made out to be? What are your thoughts.