“Everywhere I looked, I would see Osage people that I knew,” he says. “I told, let’s just walk on that red carpet like we walk into our dances in Pawhuska: like we belong there,” says Red Corn.ĭozens of tribal citizens worked as staff members and extras as the film was being shot, Red Corn mentions.

Talee portrays an Osage priest in the movie. Talee Red Corn, Yancey’s cousin with whom he grew up in the Pawhuska Osage Indian Village, sat beside him that day in the limo as they approached the theater. His mother is the acclaimed Caddo potter Jeri Redcorn, and his sister, Moira, a Pawhuska physician and artist, was Red Corn’s guest for the trip to France. Red Corn assists families in choosing Osage names for their children, and the red broadcloth he wore over his tuxedo at Cannes was his name-giver blanket, made by his mother and sister and trimmed in ribbon. The movie is scheduled for an October opening. The movie also stars Robert DeNiro, Jesse Plemons and Brendan Fraser, telling the story of oil-rich Osage Indians murdered for their headrights during the “Osage Reign of Terror” in the 1920s. The photos and video were stunning, and so was what happened inside the theater: a nine-minute standing ovation for the Martin Scorsese film, shot in Oklahoma and based on the nonfiction book by David Grann. Principal actor Lily Gladstone and other Native women invited to the premiere at the May 20 Cannes Film Festival wore spectacular gowns by Native designers, or blankets and shawls handmade by family members. Yancey Red Corn and Osage Nation Chief Geoffrey Standing Bear, shoulders wrapped in symbolically meaningful tribal blankets, stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Killers of the Flower Moon star Leonardo DeCaprio as they posed for photographs. It was a red carpet appearance like no other.

Actor, entrepreneur and consultant Yancey Red Corn poses with director Martin Scorsese (above), Selma Hayek (left) and Leonardo DiCaprio (below) at the premiere of Killers of the Flower Moon during the Cannes Film Festival in late May.

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