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.