The Real History Behind Diabetes’ Pivotal Role in Killers of the Flowers Moon

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What Killers of the Flowers Moon gets right—and wrong.

, Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of David Grann’s 2017 book about the murders of members of the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma. Mollie Burkhart, played by Lily Gladstone in the film, has diabetes, like many others in the tribe. The condition plays a pivotal part in the story: In the film, Osage people are said to commonly die before the age of 50, often from a “wasting disease” vaguely associated with diabetes, which itself is attributed to the consumption of “the white man’s food.

Mollie Burkhart, who’s the heroine of the movie, is diagnosed with diabetes, or, as the doctor James Shoun calls it in court testimony quoted in David Grann’s book, “sugar diabetes.” She’s described as having suffered from it already for a while in the early 1920s. Did doctors at the time know how to diagnose this?wrote the first extant work on diabetes that included the full description of what its symptoms looked like.

 

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