Killers of the Flower Moon (film)

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/killers-of-the-flower-moon-film

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. What is the film genre?Epic anti-Western crime drama
2. What is the director?Martin Scorsese
3. What is "Killers of the Flower Moon" about?It is a movie that tells the true story of how some people in Oklahoma were hurt because they had a lot of oil money.
4. Who made the movie?Famous director Martin Scorsese and actor Leonardo DiCaprio helped make it.

Osage Nation: A sovereign Native American nation whose members became exceptionally wealthy due to oil discovery on their ancestral lands.
Reign of Terror: A period in the 1920s when numerous Osage people were murdered or died under suspicious circumstances.
Non-fiction Adaptation: Transforming a true story documented in a book into a film narrative.
Systemic Injustice: Unfair practices embedded within a society's systems that disadvantage certain groups.