Pearl – Lent 24

Killers of the Flower Moon

Why did I know nothing about the Osage? I have just read the book. Not seen the movie yet. I thought I would be reading about events in the 18th Century and was shocked to learn that the events chronicled in this book occurred in the 1920s. We often hear that SLAVERY was America’s original sin. And a terrible sin it was. But what about stealing the land, plundering, killing, dispossessing, and cheating the Indigenous people of this land? How have we earned the title (mostly self-proclaimed) “the greatest nation on earth”?