The murder investigation that made the FBI- BBC News

In the early 20th Century, the Osage tribe were the richest people per capita in the world. But then the murders began.
David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon, describes how the Osage murders investigation led to today's FBI.
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[@killjoycola]

These are my family members.. it breaks my heart that this happened

[@koffin9429]

Oh hush

[@TrishC5280]

My heart breaks knowing this happened to the Osage 💔 Indigenous people are resilient despite the atrocities committed against us 💯

[@MaxMinXX]

Holy crap! It's bad enough you've taken their lands. You kicked them out and placed them in a crappy area. Then killed them again bc that heap of crap is valuable to you! WTF!!! I mean, how f*ckin evil can you people be?

[@madouc5754]

mavz - there were certainly many evil people in this sad business. These crimes could not have taken place without massive corruption. However there were white people who tried to help, some who paid with their lives.

[@teflonpan115]

What do you mean "you people" ?

[@lilperk30]

@@teflonpan115 they mean white people dumb ass

[@jopersan8876]

This will be upcoming film for Martin Scorsese's

[@Trisharan_]

Yup

[@GooberProductionz]

They recently just had to switch studios due to lack of funding too.

[@be6302]

Yo i was about to write that about the upcoming Scorsese movie u guys are fast af on comments

[@GooberProductionz]

@@be6302 lol we all have nothing else better to do right now.

[@BumbleBee-bp7du]

I really hope that it still gets filmed, with everything going on now. This book was really eye-opening, and I really feel that people need to know about this.

[@ME-hm3tc]

The wildest thing to me was that this happened only in the 1920s. Not the 1800s, the 1900s!

[@GaelleSSaintLouis]

America was indeed built on sins, but to be honest the whole systematic world is built upon sins

[@ugaas89]

Please don't compare their sins with the world the Americas have seen some of the biggest if not the biggest atrocities in human history. And their seeds continue to havoc chaos in the world.

[@diipalidey186]

White Australia was certainly built on sin. Entire Indigenous communities were wiped out. The indigenous people of Australia were not recognised as human in the constitution until 1967.

[@Misskitty15]

America was founded on the Christian faith. Free Masonry was, in the beginning, not what evolved into later. But let's face it, since Adam and Eve, & Cain and Able ,men have either listened to the devil or God.

[@DavidBryant]

Sins? This entire wicked nation was founded upon blood.

[@DavidBryant]

@@Misskitty15 America was NEVER founded on the "Christian" faith.

[@northernsoutherngirl]

Wow! Interested in reading up on this. Kind of reminds me of the "Black Wall Street" Tulsa, OK murders.

[@sint0xicateme]

There's a podcast about the Tulsa massacre - American History Tellers I also recommend Killers of the Flower Moon about the Osage murders.

[@cmebans35]

It's amazing to know these murders were the result of America being jealous of minorities.

[@gnostic268]

@@cmebans35 Native people including the Osage aren't minorities. We are the Indigenous people who were originally living here. We don't go by the same standards as other minorities. We are defined by our sovereignty, culture and languages. We were also slaves and then colonized. The first black people were transported here under slavery originally. Only their descendants are not immigrants. There are many communities of African people living in the U.S. who are not descendants of slaves and they're immigrants like other minorities from Asia, etc.

[@gnostic268]

Except this happened to Native communities all over what is now the U.S. because the treaties our tribal nations made with the U.S. government have been repeatedly broken.

[@NoName-oe6ey]

@@cmebans35 we are NOT MINORITIES

[@llammy]

Wow, now I know what book I MUST read next. I've never thought about how the FBI was first formed but now I'm curious as heck

[@JamesHawkins54]

We have done so many terrible things to our minorities... specifically the Natives of this land. This should not surprise me but it does.

[@JamesHawkins54]

+Bexley Outpost I see that were I and most European Americans are in life is a direct a result of what our ancestors did to our minority brothers and sisters. I would not be living on my property if my great-great-great grandfather had not been part of expelling the Cherokee Nation from what is now my land. Our history IS indeed a complex story with no easy answers. Nevertheless, we should at least admit there is an issue. You sound like you hold the same view of "Manifest Destiny" that my ancestors held. Anyhow, thanks for the comment.

[@NoName-oe6ey]

We are not MINORITIES

[@durtylyfeeso7889]

@@JamesHawkins54the truth is you’re family are blue eye white devils

[@kylewattssurfing3266]

Thxxxxxx for sharing

[@MrCory86]

This is the first time hearing about this disgusting incident! I'm at a loss as this world doesn't seem to be getting any better. I'm truly worried about the children I've brought into this world now!

[@dr3nch_g0d52]

This was not recent news

Have to wake up and "Smell the Coffee" buddy. USA still ain't changed much. Just more intelligently covert, in not exposing its "Malevolent Corruption" for the entire world to see !!

[@faxd3448]

@@dr3nch_g0d52 this was less than 2 generations ago and is still one of the worst cases of native genocide in America lol

[@bilinguepiment]

White man

[@IKENAK]

As long as the white man lives the rest of the world dies.

[@Quinntus79]

Never learned about this in Oklahoma history. Glad I was able to find books about it.

[@imagreatguy5770]

I know right. Never learned about it in high school and this is probably the most interesting think about Oklahoma history

[@Quinntus79]

@@imagreatguy5770 The Land Runs were actually pretty fascinating. The story of Elmur McCurdy is also kind of a weird story. The cool thing about history there’s a bunch of obscure and fascinating stories to learn if you know where to look.

[@RhettyforHistory]

This is such a good book

[@Quinntus79]

The ending dragged a little bit for me, but still a fascinating story. Sad that the federal government deemed Natives too incompetent to access their own money and that the Osage had to have white caretakers to oversee their finances. Just goes to show the feds don’t have the people’s best interest at heart.

[@sanjayraju988]

About to be a great movie

[@sanjayraju988]

Martin Scorsese brought me here.

[@martinchow1381]

Interesting

[@Pytho_n]

Thumbs up if you are here after the movie

[@kylewattssurfing3266]

Awesome cool

[@Happy_HIbiscus]

Dude, i have this book!

[@NellieKAdaba]

Wow. RIP Natives.

[@cmebans35]

♥️🙏

[@theovee4321]

Its lawless now too

[@joserodriguez-vj6bk]

I read the book.It was so interesting.Never new about this part of history.You are never taught much,about Natives Americans in school.At least not the truth.

[@gerardfenn3988]

I always believed that the number 1 fear of immigrants traveling west into the unsettled land of these young United States was the fear that the Indians would end up killing them. This was indeed a concern with the journey, and it is only recently I heard that the immigrants stood a greater chance of dying while crossing rivers in their travels from New York to the Northwest Territory. The truth about the Native Americans or, American Indians , will always be contorted as the story is passed on generation to generation. To truly know the existence and history of the American Indians, one would have had to live it.

[@driax4297]

wow

[@stealjack6071]

Scorsese caprio deniro with this story? Omfg xD

[@lukeGGlee]

Yea but we are all here for Brendan Fraser

[@mikesanders3246]

Sadly, I'm pretty sure my family was involved in this

[@nomdeplume2213]

Id love to hear more if you're willing to elaborate

[@zippymufo9765]

You should pay reparations then 😂

[@tobeygab4132]

And now leo and bob making a film

[@devanvelo3725]

Why does BBC block comments from certain vids? Lol

[@diipalidey186]

Probably coz people have gotten nasty

[@TimesFM4532]

Hover is one of the most complicated men in us history

[@alanperez1386]

Wow Martin Scorsese 🍀😍📽️🎬🎭

The USA hasn't changed much since then !! 😢😢

[@gesucastello1986]

You must be an entitled white American, you don't know how easy and good you have, it i grew up in the third world i know real poverty, oppression and injustice i been working since I'm 6 years old and thanks to this country mi child don't have to experience what I have endure. God bless USA!.

[@saramuhammad8370]

Jews and palastine Whites and america Same story diffrent acts

[@gerardfenn3988]

Greed By Force

[@stephenstubbs8487]

Scorcese brought me hear

[@mathdavies9546]

11 cars each lol

[@karelkubes4384]

Governments of countries of Americas should be seriously considering tax redistribution to First Nations and people with slavery origin. That isn't apply only to USA but also to all countries on both the Continents of America/New World. Justice must prevail!

[@Arisari752]

Звери звери уничтожили миллионы людей 😡

[@navrajperme2068]

America was native Indian's

[@GooberProductionz]

These dudes had White servants!

[@coraggio93]

Yes, and the Cherokee before the Trail of Tears owned enslaved people. smdh

[@jean9421]

They had white servants

[@trtlxjoscelynfloress9082]

Early squad

[@3101010]

Me I just worked since I was old enough to contribute. I guess I could sit around waiting for handouts and blame all things on the past but I choose to not be held accountable for shit I had nothing to do with.

[@gnostic268]

Or you could re-emigrate back to where your ancestors originally came from and cry about it to them.

[@payasoinfeliz]

getting back what was stolen from you is justice, not a handout.

[@3101010]

@@payasoinfeliz you had nothing stolen from you. Your confused about what colonization is. You weren't even alive and your ancestors occupied the land they migrated to from their journey from Asia.

[@payasoinfeliz]

@@3101010 these people did

[@durtylyfeeso7889]

@@3101010they had everything stolen. Them blue eyed white devils tried to rewrite history

[@collinblatchford]

Original sin, Britton are you still salt about us revolting?

[@DeviantDork]

Not very informative.

[@johnsweda2999]

EvanMD well it's just a trailer a snippet you have to watch the full program I suppose

[@johnsweda2999]

Reparation should be awarded to all Native Americans and a appointee be made head of the country, a native king or queen should be appointed as ruler of the USA and congress who have high power in politics to see over the Senate the house and the White House. a type of mediator who looks at the legislation the bills been brought forward for law and if they're not happy send them back and ask them to re amended.

[@jeffreyslater6556]

John sweda interesting theory you have

[@nativemrv19722]

I like that idea...Because it looks like we won't get our lands back..

[@jeffreyslater6556]

nativemrv19722 Our lands? Which tribe? Did you know that some 90% of tribes had been wiped out before any Europeans had come?

[@nativemrv19722]

Yes, I know this...I am from the Cherokee/Tuscarora tribes...Yes we are still here in America..I go to pow wows every year...And we don't all live in Tepees either...We live in homes and apartments like everyone else..

[@jeffreyslater6556]

nativemrv19722 I never said you didn't. I'm just pointing out that if you say it's your land then that means you took it from someone else years ago as well. So, you weren't the first to claim it nor the last

[@johnhoward2337]

"Original sin from which the country was born"? If conquest is original sin, then all of humanity is formed on original sin. There is not a territory in the world that was not taken by conquest, by any people. Not justifying anything. Just stating what is obvious about all nations worldwide.

[@pappytits4849]

this is what our money is going on people...

[@johnnycaruthers7180]

I'll take this informational video over the usual libtard propaganda we're bombarded with everyday.

[@E7_thn]

pappy tits I think it's good but I'd rather it be about British things.