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For the Osage Nation, the betrayal of the murders depicted in 'Killers of the Flower Moon' still lingers

By Shannon Toll, Associate Professor of Indigenous Literatures, University of Dayton
This article contains plot spoilers of “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

The sheriff disguised her death as whiskey poisoning. Because, when he carved her body up, he saw the bullet hole in her skull. Because, when she was murdered, the leg clutchers bloomed. But then froze under the weight of frost. During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga Tze-the, the Killer of the Flowers Moon.
The excerpt is from the poem “Wi’-gi-e,”…The Conversation


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