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Preparations begin for filming on Kihekah Avenue in Pawhuska

Photo caption: A building that was once closed and boarded up in downtown Pawhuska is under renovation and being turned into the Liberty Cafe, a café that was once in downtown 1920s Fairfax. SHANNON SHAW DUTY/Osage News

Preparations have begun for filming in downtown Pawhuska. Buildings along Kihekah Avenue are slowly transforming into 1920s Fairfax for the upcoming film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

According to production staff, and working in conjunction with the Pawhuska City Council, traffic will be one-way, northbound, on Kihekah Avenue between 6th and 8th streets beginning Monday, May 3. At a later date yet to be announced, the road will be closed to traffic.

Further instructions include: 

– Curbside public parking on both the east and west sides of the street will also be closed between 6th and 7th streets.

– Westbound traffic on 7th and 8th streets will not be permitted to turn left (southbound) on Kihekah.

-Westbound traffic on 6th street is permitted to turn left (southbound) on Kihekah Ave.

– Southbound Kihekah traffic coming down the hill into town will be directed eastward at 8th street.

The film is an adaptation of David Grann’s bestselling book, “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.” The book details the true story of the systematic murders of Osage tribal members for their oil wealth in the 1920s. The story also chronicles the investigation of federal agents and the evil they discover lurking on the reservation.

Renovations to building interiors and storefronts on Kihekah Avenue are coming to fruition. Hometown Appliance, the Big Rain Gallery, and a number of other privately owned businesses are getting a facelift as they are turned into sets for filming.

“We will provide further details on full road closures as we get closer to our filming period as well as any related pertinent information,” according to the email. “Thank you for your time, consideration and generous hospitality. We are excited to be using the City of Pawhuska as our filming location and look forward to working with community members and visitors.”


By

Shannon Shaw Duty


Original Publish Date: 2021-05-01 00:00:00

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Title: Editor
Email: sshaw20@gmail.com
Twitter: @dutyshaw
Topic Expertise: Columnist, Culture, Community
Languages spoken: English, Osage (intermediate), Spanish (beginner)

Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. She has served as a board member for LION Publishers, as Vice President for the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education, on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (now Indigenous Journalists Association) and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive NAJA's Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.

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