by Allan Wall, VDare, ©2023
(Oct. 24, 2023) — Killers of the Flower Moon is the biggest-budget movie ever made in my home state of Oklahoma. Filmed in Osage County with its beautiful, rolling prairie, the movie is based on David Grann’s book, Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI. The book and film explore the murders of oil-rich and wealthy Osage Indians in the 1920s, investigated by the then newly-created FBI. Personally, I don’t see the book or the movie as particularly anti-white. Yes, the bad guys were white. Then again, so were the good guys! But of course communists are using the movie to portray American history through the red lens of Critical Race Theory.
The Osage Indians lived, hunted, fought, and traveled where Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri came together eventually were settled on a reservation in northern Oklahoma.
The War Between the States divided the Osage, just as it did the entire country. A Confederate Osage Battalion didn’t surrender until June 23, 1865, along with Cherokee Confederate General Stand Watie, two and a half months after General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox.
While still in Kansas, Osage were evangelized by Dutch Jesuit Catholic missionary John Schoenmakers, the “Apostle to the Osages.” A Catholic church in Pawhuska called the Cathedral of the Osage boasts a stained-glass window, custom-made in Munich, Germany, portraying Schoenmakers’ preaching. The priest’s audience includes four chiefs, including the great Chief Bacon Rind, sporting their otter-skin caps. Because the window included then-living persons, a special dispensation from the Vatican was required to make and install it.
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