Author David Grann talks about the story of a piece of history contained in his book known as “Killers of The Flower Moon” in his interview at the New York Premiere. Check it out.
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00:00 It's a little surreal because you spend so much time with documents and records.
00:09 I spent five years in archives studying transcripts and then to suddenly see this transposed into
00:16 a film where you have these incredible actors playing these people, playing Molly Burkhardt,
00:21 playing Ernest Burkhardt, bringing the story to life, making you care about the story.
00:25 I couldn't ask for more.
00:28 In some ways I'm just a little bit like any other observer.
00:30 You're just a little blown away by watching it happen.
00:32 Well, this was a part of history that outside the Osage nation for too long was erased from
00:37 our consciousness.
00:39 It's one of the worst racial injustices, one of the most sinister crimes to occur in this
00:43 country.
00:44 And yet most of us, including myself, we had never been taught it.
00:48 We didn't read about it.
00:49 We had in effect excised it from our conscience.
00:51 So it is so critical that we begin to learn about this history, to begin to restore our
00:56 past and in the process figure out what kind of people and nation we want to be in the future.