Killers of the Flower Moon: Adapted for Young Readers
The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
(Sprache: Englisch)
The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young readers.
This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror...
This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror...
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The New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist Killers of the Flower Moon is now adapted for young readers.This book is an essential resource for young readers to learn about the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes.
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma, thanks to the oil that was discovered beneath their land. Then, one by one, the Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances, and anyone who tried to investigate met the same end.
As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created Bureau of Investigation, which became the FBI, took up the case, one of the organization's first major homicide investigations. An undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau, infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Working with the Osage, they began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
In this adaptation of the adult bestseller, David Grann revisits his gripping investigation into the shocking crimes against the Osage people. The book is a searing indictment of the callousness and prejudice toward Native Americans that allowed the murderers to occur for so long.
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IN APRIL, MILLIONS OF TINY FLOWERS SPREAD OVER THE blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. There are Johnny-jump-ups and spring beauties and little bluets. The Osage writer John Joseph Mathews said that the galaxy of petals makes it look as if the gods had left confetti. In May, when coyotes howl beneath an unnervingly large moon, taller plants, such as spiderworts and black-eyed Susans, begin to creep over the tinier blooms, stealing their light and water. The necks of the smaller flowers break and their petals flutter away, and before long they are buried underground. This is why the Osage Indians refer to May as the time of the flower-killing moon. On May 24, 1921, Mollie Burkhart, a resident of the Osage settlement town of Gray Horse, Oklahoma, began to fear that something had happened to one of her three sisters, Anna Brown. Thirty-four, and less than a year older than Mollie, Anna had disappeared three days earlier. She had often gone on sprees, as her family called them: dancing and drinking with friends until dawn. But this time, one night had passed and then another, and Anna had not shown up on Mollie s front stoop as she usually did. When Anna came inside, she liked to slip off her shoes, and Mollie missed the comforting sound of her moving, unhurried, through the house. Instead, there was a silence as still as the plains.
Mollie had already lost her sister Minnie nearly three years earlier. Minnie s death had come with shocking speed, and though doctors had named it a peculiar wasting illness, Mollie had her doubts. Minnie had been only twenty-seven and had always been in perfect health.
Like their parents, Mollie and her sisters had their names inscribed on the Osage Roll, which meant that they were among the registered members of the tribe. It also meant that they were worth a fortune. In the early 1870s, the Osage had been driven from their lands in Kansas onto a rocky, presumably worthless reservation in
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northeastern Oklahoma. Decades later, they discovered that this land was sitting above some of the largest oil deposits in the United States. And to get that oil, prospectors had to pay the Osage.
In the early twentieth century, each person on the tribal roll began receiving a quarterly check. The amount was initially for only a few dollars, but over time, as more oil was tapped, the payments grew into the hundreds, then the thousands. And virtually every year, they received more and more, until the tribe members had collectively accumulated millions and millions of dollars. (In 1923 alone, the tribe took in more than $30 million, which would be worth more than $400 million today.) The Osage were considered the wealthiest people per capita in the world. Lo and behold! the New York magazine Outlook exclaimed. The Indian, instead of starving to death . . . enjoys a steady income that turns bankers green with envy.
The public had become transfixed by the tribe s prosperity, which contradicted many of the images of American Indians that could be traced back to the brutal first contact with whites the original sin from which the country was born. Readers were fascinated by stories about the Osage s brick mansions and chandeliers, their diamond rings and fur coats and chauffeured cars. One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing.
At the same time, reporters seized upon any signs of the traditional Osage way of life, which seemed to stir in the public s mind visions of wild Indians. One article noted a circle of expensive automobiles surrounding an open campfire, where the bronzed and brightly blanketed owners are cooking meat in the primitive style. Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a cerem
In the early twentieth century, each person on the tribal roll began receiving a quarterly check. The amount was initially for only a few dollars, but over time, as more oil was tapped, the payments grew into the hundreds, then the thousands. And virtually every year, they received more and more, until the tribe members had collectively accumulated millions and millions of dollars. (In 1923 alone, the tribe took in more than $30 million, which would be worth more than $400 million today.) The Osage were considered the wealthiest people per capita in the world. Lo and behold! the New York magazine Outlook exclaimed. The Indian, instead of starving to death . . . enjoys a steady income that turns bankers green with envy.
The public had become transfixed by the tribe s prosperity, which contradicted many of the images of American Indians that could be traced back to the brutal first contact with whites the original sin from which the country was born. Readers were fascinated by stories about the Osage s brick mansions and chandeliers, their diamond rings and fur coats and chauffeured cars. One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing.
At the same time, reporters seized upon any signs of the traditional Osage way of life, which seemed to stir in the public s mind visions of wild Indians. One article noted a circle of expensive automobiles surrounding an open campfire, where the bronzed and brightly blanketed owners are cooking meat in the primitive style. Another documented a party of Osage arriving at a cerem
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Autoren-Porträt von David Grann
David Grann is a staff writer at the New Yorker and the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, which was chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications and has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. He is also the author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes and Killers of the Flower Moon. His work has garnered several honors for outstanding journalism, including a George Polk Award.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: David Grann
- Altersempfehlung: Ab 10 Jahre
- 2021, 336 Seiten, Maße: 16,2 x 23,9 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Penguin Random House
- ISBN-10: 0593377346
- ISBN-13: 9780593377345
- Erscheinungsdatum: 19.01.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"An eye-opening, challenging, and thoroughly sourced saga that will open the door to many necessary conversations." -Booklist, starred review"A young readers treatment that is just as imperative and enthralling as its parent text."--School Library Journal, starred review
"There is no shortage of jaw-dropping information in Killers of the Flower Moon. Grann entices younger readers with a mystery worthy of fiction and grips them with a thriller."--Shelf Awareness, starred review
"This compelling page-turner highlights criminal exploitation of Osage people and the work of the modern FBI." -Kirkus Reviews
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