Commentary: Similar to ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ we are taking steps to advance equity in filmmaking
by Lorna Cuny, Molly Gochman and Prairie Rose Seminole, Chicago Tribune
Dec 27, 2023
3 minutes
A century ago, settlers descended on Osage County, Oklahoma, where Osage Nation members were newly wealthy because of oil found on their land. Settler greed resulted in a tragic series of murders and a community robbed of its prosperity, severing Indigenous peoples’ capacity to uphold time-honored management of the land and resources.
Today, a film dramatizing those events is evoking a pattern. As Osage journalist Dennis McAuliffe Jr. in The Washington Post, “a century later, that town hosted ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and was abandoned again,
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