Killers of the Flower Moon review: Martin Scorsese’s tale of Indigenous slaughter is a masterpiece
Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon is as much a companion to Goodfellas as The Departed was – albeit dealing with a type of gangsterism that America has long refused to confront, of an organised effort to steal from and butcher its Indigenous people for monetary profit.
In 1894, oil was discovered on land belonging to the Osage Nation. They ensured ownership of the mineral rights, and became the richest people per hones in on one such individual, ’s Ernest Burkhart, who arrived in Fairfax, Oklahoma, and married Mollie Kyle () at the behest of his uncle, William Hale ().
