Osage consultant helps 'Killers of the Flower Moon' costume designer sew up Oscar nomination

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  • Author(s): By:Brandy McDonnell, The Oklahoman
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    Oklahoman, The: Web Edition Articles (Oklahoma City, OK), March 10, 2024 Lifestyle, 5pp
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    • Abstract:
      For Julie O'Keefe, authentic cinematic storytelling is about more than the words spoken by the actors, the locations chosen for filming or the music crafted to enhance the emotion. The multitalented Tulsan sees the storytelling in the distinctive way one of her fellow Osage Nation citizens wears a blanket, in the military stylings of an Osage woman's traditional wedding coat and in the otter hat worn by an Osage spiritual leader or "roadman." "Those materials and our clothing, they're telling you the story about our life and what happened to us within every thread of it," she told The Oklahoman...