Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Summary
David Grann

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI Overview

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann is a work of nonfiction that investigates the horrific event known as The Reign of Terror, during which scores of Osage people were mysteriously and often violently murdered. While presenting the facts surrounding these murders and the circumstances around subsequent investigations, David Grann paints a terrible and vivid portrait of the widespread discrimination and oppression inflicted upon Native Americans in the early twentieth century. The book examines themes of the link between oppression and brutality, betrayal in pursuit of material gain, and the challenges posed when corruption is so powerful that it threatens to squelch any hope for true justice.