“It Became a Dark Place”: Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear on “Killers of the Flower Moon”
Cinematic depictions of Native tragedy have historically been fraught with questions over authenticity, realism, and empathy; this was doubly true of Martin Scorsese‘s most recent film to date, 2023’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” which dramatized David Grann’s eponymous book chronicling the Reign of Terror against members of the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. To…