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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Pipestem is also Osage ... who came to town with a specific goal of marrying an Osage woman,” RedCorn says. But there’s a flip side.

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.

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.