Henry Roan

Henry Roan or E-Stah-mo-sah (1881—February 6/8, 1923) was an Osage man murdered during the Osage Indian murders. William King Hale was convicted as the mastermind of the most notorious of these murdersthat of Roan. His murder led to the U.S. Supreme Court case United States v. Ramsey.

William Belleau portrayed Roan in the 2023 film Killers of the Flower Moon.

Biography Henry Roan was born E-Stah-mo-sah in Indian Territory (which became Oklahoma) and raised in an Osage family from Hominy, Oklahoma. He attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School between September 21, 1899, and June 21, 1904. Roan married Mollie Kyle in a traditional and arranged Osage marriage when he was 15. Shortly after the marriage he returned to Carlisle Indian Industrial School and they each remarried.