doing with it. >> reporter: "killers of the flower moon" focuses on several deaths of afluent osage indians families were targeted by the violence. your great grandfather was a victim, so you have a personal connection? >> couldn't be more personal. once it became abundantly clear nobody was investigating all the mysterious deaths that were going on, they appealed to the tribal council to petition the united states to do something about it. >> reporter: eventually, federal investigators stepped in and uncovered a larger conspiracy among non-native locals to take advantage of the osage families and usurp their fortunes. >> we weren't supposed to be wealthy. and something had to be done about it. >> reporter: all of this enabled by an oppressive policy imposed on the newly rich osage. >> half blood or more were automatically declared noncompetent. incapable of conducting business without a white guardian approving any transaction. >> what did that do to the tribe? >> well, it put the fox in charge of the henhouse is what it did. and so the guardian program created an economic incentive that i

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