This is where Hale (De Niro) enters the story. He was a white cattle rancher who proclaimed himself the “King of the Osage Hills” (see the real Hale on the right in the photo above). He befriended many members of the Osage nation so he could lease and/or buy acres from them for his business.
Martin Scorsese’s $200 million epic “Killers of the Flower Moon,” based on David Grann’s 2017 non-fiction book, centers on the Reign of Terror, a term
the Osage Nation used to define the murders of at least 60 community members in the late 1920s. The film tells this true crime tale through the lens of a
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