This is my favorite book of 2023. It is a non-fiction and historical book, but it reads like a thriller/mystery. I picked this book up right before the movie came out and I didn't know the movie was based on a book. So I bought it and I was hooked by the first couple of pages.

It is an extremely sad piece of history and the author does an amazing job slowly unfolding the story while being respectful to the Osage tribe and you can tell the author cares about having their story told right. I do not know much about the history of Indigenous Americans and this was quite the way to start it off. As an avid Black history reader, the similarities were staggering and it just shows how f*cked up the white people of the time were and how much they tried to hold on to power and authority even though they had no reason to.

DO NOT READ IF YOU WANNA READ FOR YOURSELF

Imagine being displaced from your ancestral land by random people who aren't even native to the land and then forcibly moved somewhere else those random people thought would hold back your people, and then your people become rich AF because those people moved your community to land that was actually rich in resources. Then imagine those random settlers tryna circle back and take the land back now that they know what it holds. Then when that doesn't work, they take control of your finances. Eventually, that isn't enough so they just start killing off individuals in your community because they think they deserve the money more. Just absolutely crazy and audacious. An amazing story.