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 ...

The Osage Indian Reservation was oil rich ... I did some reporting about a woman named Lillie Morrell Burkhart. She was not related to Mollie Burkhart or the Kyle sisters. But this was in 1967.

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.

in Scorsese’s film — for the horrifying murders of several dozen or more Osage Indians over their oil headrights. Young Deer, vp and general manager of the Thompson Moving Picture Corporation ...

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.

A federal judge sentenced a man to 50 years in prison for robbing and kidnapping an Osage Nation woman in Missouri, then driving her to Oklahoma to murder her. Investigators said in July 2020 ...