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The highly anticipated film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon comes out on Friday, Oct. 20.
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In 1984, the Oklahoma Historical Society took over the management of Lillie Morrell Burkhart’s estate, and today they run the White Hair Memorial — just as Lillie wanted. But, there continue to be questions about what exactly that legacy will be moving forward.
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Lillie Morrell Burkhart was a wealthy Osage woman living near Ralston, Oklahoma in Osage County in the early 20th century. When she passed away in 1967, she had a will that clearly laid out her wishes: her home is to be kept as a shrine to her ancestor Chief White Hair. She left her land, her country house and her two headrights to the Oklahoma Historical Society.In KOSU’s third story in a series about her legacy, what would happen to that home and everything inside it would be at the center of a lengthy court battle involving relatives who were upset that Osage wealth would be leaving Osage hands once again.
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The Osage Reign of Terror didn't just include one family, and it didn't stop and start in the 1920s. KOSU examined obituaries, death certificates and talked with family members who say the deaths of great-grandfathers and mothers in their family tree have left lingering questions about what really happened.
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Lillie Morrell Burkhart was born in 1907, one year after the Osage Allotment Act was passed giving the Osage control over their mineral estate and enormous wealth – something that put a target on many Osages. She was an original Osage allottee, was on the tribal council, was an interpreter for Chief Fred Lookout and a world traveler.Morell Burkhart was alive during the reign of terror and watched many of her friends and community members lose their lives to a murderous conspiracy. She survived.
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Another trailer was released on Wednesday, giving away more details of the hotly anticipated film, Killers of the Flower Moon.
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Apple Original Films is releasing two movie posters that will advertise the film Killers of the Flower Moon when it starts playing in theaters this fall.
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Killers of the Flower Moon, the nonfiction book by David Grann about the Osage murders, has been made into a movie by director Martin Scorsese. Over the weekend, it made its Oklahoma debut for some Osage citizens.
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The new trailer was released Wednesday.
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The new film adaptation of Killers of the Flower Moon is already starting conversations about how history should be discussed and remembered in Oklahoma. The movie — set to break out in wide release this fall — could change the way people in the state talk about Oklahoma's past.