Osage indians

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Osage Indians, Pawhuska, Oklahoma; Unidentified; Native American, Osage; Native American, Osage; 1850 - 1900; Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma

While investigating the heinous Osage murders for my new book, I also came to know the victims' faces.

Author David Grann shares powerful images from one of the FBI’s first major homicide investigations, which he details in his book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI."

In the 1800s, the Osage tribe of Oklahoma struck oil. Thirty years later, dozens had been killed, including three relatives of Mollie Burkhart (pictured). Solving the crime fell to the FBI.

THEY were the Native American tribe that were killed off one-by-one after oil was discovered underneath their land. And chilling black and white photos have shed light on the people and area involv…

Photographs of American Indians : Osage Indians [A]

The Rare Archival Photos Behind 'Killers of the Flower Moon' https://t.co/cVePJmzENn https://t.co/H9ohgLQYTO

Son of influential Osage Chief Black Dog, Black Dog II was photographed wearing a bear claw necklace during the Hayden Geological Survey of 1880, the same year he became a principal chief. Learn more about the Osage people along the Santa Fe National Historic Trail and at the Osage Nation Museum in Pawhuska, Oklahoma.– Courtesy of the National Park Service, Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, LIBI_00312_11125,Hayden Survey of the US. Geological Survey, “ circa 1880 –