Leonardo DiCaprio and Lily Gladstone in Killers of the Flower Moon
recounts the true story of how a white businessman and self-proclaimed"true friend" of the Osage Nation orchestrated the brutal murders of numerous members of the tribe in early 1920s Oklahoma., the film centers on the relationship between an Osage woman, Mollie Kyle , and white World War I veteran, Ernest Burkhart , nephew of the aforementioned wealthy rancher, William K. Hale .
The U.S. government put a system of guardianship in place, under which any Osage who was deemed"incompetent" was assigned a guardian who controlled their money. The system often resulted in guardians withholding or outright stealing money from the Osage.As is shown in the movie, Ernest met Mollie while he was working as a taxi driver in Osage County. They married in 1917 at Hale's urging and eventually had three children together, Elizabeth, James"Cowboy," and Anna.
The movie shows Ernest slowly poisoning Mollie, who was diabetic, by giving her injections of what she was told was insulin to keep her weak and wasting away in bed during the later years of the Reign of Terror, an alleged attempt on her life that Mollie survived.When Rita and Bill Smith and their housekeeper Nettie Brookshire were killed in an explosion at their home in 1923, it prompted the Osage Tribal Council to appeal to the federal government for help.
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