David Grann

Author of “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” and “The Lost City of Z” ; The New Yorker

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Staff writer for the New Yorker; author of “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI” and “The Lost City of Z”

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President Thomas Jefferson once called the Osage Indians “the great nation.” That was before he pushed them off their ancestral land in the central part of America.

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President Thomas Jefferson once called the Osage Indians “the great nation.” That was before he pushed them off their ancestral land in the central part of America.

Osage tribe got rich from oil, became targets of murder conspiracy

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