“The Osage Murders” is a historical documentary focusing on the events that occurred on the Osage reservation in the 1920s. In the early 1900s, death was all too common in the oil boom town of Fairfax on the Osage Reservation. Discover more films like this from the #PBSFilmFest at PBS.org/filmfestival. | Nebraska Public Media

Osage Nation Murders Part 2... “The Osage Indian murders were a series of murders of Osage people in Osage County, Oklahoma during the 1910s–1930s; newspapers described the increasing number of unsolved murders as the "Reign of Terror," lasting from 1921-1926. The estimated Osage death toll is in the hundreds, though reported numbers are much less and investigated deaths are least of all. Some sources report that 60 or more wealthy, full-blood Osage Native Americans were killed from 1918 to 1931

With the upcoming release of the movie Killers of the Flower Moon from filmmaker Martin Scorsese, there has been renewed interest in the murders that took place on the Osage Reservation in the early 1900s. “Osage Murders” is a historical documentary from Native American filmmakers Dan Bigbee Jr. (Comanche) and Lily Shangreaux (Oglala Lakota) that focuses on the events that occurred on the Osage Reservation in the 1920s. | Nebraska Public Media