How The Osage Indian Murders Seemed To Center Around One Woman Not long after Mollie Burkhart’s wedding, her family members started to die. In 1918, her sister Minnie died of a mysterious ...

Set in 1920s Oklahoma and told through the improbable romance between the son of a poor cotton farmer named Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a wealthy Osage woman named Mollie Kyle ...

and Mollie Burkhart (Lily Gladstone), a local Osage woman whose family was one of the community’s wealthiest. Robert De Niro stars as Ernest’s uncle, William Hale. As both Grann’s book and ...

Pratt is also a descendant of one of the Osage people portrayed ... an on-duty officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The officer was jailed, but the woman's quest for federal compensation ...

And in rural Oklahoma, members of the Osage Indian tribe had more money per capita ... Osage men drove the latest Pierce Arrows, women dripped diamonds and families employed white servants.

Known as the Osage Indian murders, these crimes were driven ... a full-blooded Osage woman. The two became close and, with encouragement from Burkhart’s uncle, got married and had three children.

Orlando Kenworthy (right) was an Osage man who attended the Carrlisle Indian School ... “You’ll see things like photographs of women with their backs turned to the camera, which would be ...

Grant announced he would delegate control of all U.S. Indian agencies to ... and demanding self-rule. The Osage won this fight: In 1887, the St. Louis School for Girls opened in Pawhuska, Okla.

Silversmith Kugee Supernaw made the wabonkas, the round, silver ornaments Osage women threaded onto their ... who gave an Indian council member his coat, which didn’t fit the typically tall ...

The Osage Ballet overlooks a creek in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on the Osage Indian reservation ... Tallchief, an Osage woman who revolutionized ballet in the 1940s and ‘50s, died in 2013, at 88.