By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by R

Description: By the Fire We Carry by Rebecca Nagle Breathtaking… a triumph NOREEN MASUDA fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller TIYA MILESCompellingly told and deeply researched CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nations earliest days, and a small-town murder in the 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later.Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. By contrast, nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests – in the emergence of the United States as a nation, the government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples.In the 1830s, Muscogee people were rounded up by the US military at gunpoint and forced into exile halfway across the continent. At the time, they were promised this new land would be theirs for as long as the grass grew and the waters ran. But that promise was not kept. When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee land, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a century later, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorneys argued that the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe, and therefore Oklahoma didnt have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma asserted that the reservation no longer existed. In the summer of 2020, the Supreme Court settled the dispute. Its ruling would ultimately underpin multiple reservations covering almost half the land in Oklahoma, including the authors own Cherokee Nation.Here Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma. By chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance, By the Fire We Carry stands as a landmark work of American history. Author Biography Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning reporter, writer, and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the creator and host of Crooked Medias chart-topping podcast This Land. Her work has been featured in The Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, USA Today, Teen Vogue, the Huffington Post, among other outlets. Nagle lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Review A fascinating book and an important one. Nagle is skilled at explaining the intricacies of the legal arguments in terms that a layperson can understand… She compellingly describes not only the historical wrongs committed against Indigenous peoples, but also how we cant excuse those wrongs by assuming that they were acceptable to their contemporaries because of some kind of lesser moral standardWashington PostBreathtaking: essential reading for anyone yet to understand who US law exists to serve, and who it exists to exploit. Nagles book achieves impeccable balance; its a call for hope which still never loses sight of the labour and blood underpinning every victory in this rigged system. A triumphNOREEN MASUD, author of A Flat PlaceCompellingly told and deeply researched, Nagles timely work brilliantly reveals the sweeping and yet profoundly personal consequences of ongoing Indigenous struggles for sovereigntyCAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK, author of On Savage ShoresIn a fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller, Rebecca Nagle lays bare centuries of injustice in Oklahoma and the southeastern lands from which the American government exiled her ancestors and thousands of other Indigenous peoples. By the Fire We Carry is a clear and courageous call for justiceTIYA MILES, author of All That She CarriedThis is great storytelling, dogged reporting, and a compelling personal tale all wrapped in a book that should live for years to comeTIMOTHY EGAN, author of A Fever in the HeartlandNagle brings us face-to-face with personal and collective histories and their consequences in a multigenerational story of corruption, betrayal, and the enduring strength of Native resistance. This book is enlightening, enraging, inspiring, and impossible to put downIJEOMA OLUO, author of So You Want to Talk About Race Promotional A Powerful New History of Native American Resistance, The Generations-Long Fight for Justice. Details ISBN0008725012 Author Rebecca Nagle Language English Year 2024 ISBN-10 0008725012 ISBN-13 9780008725013 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-10-30 UK Release Date 2024-10-30 Pages 352 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Imprint William Collins Subtitle The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9780008725020 Audience General NZ Release Date 2024-10-30 AU Release Date 2024-10-30 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168372840;

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