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By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
  • Rebecca Nagle
2024
Harper

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Featured Excerpts

  • A portrait of Major Ridge, an older Cherokee man.
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    First Person

    Revealed Through a Mountain of Paperwork

    As the nation’s highest court debated Native sovereignty, I was in the archives, uncovering family stories entwined with those debates.
    by Rebecca Nagle via HNN on September 24, 2024
  • Deserted turnpike on tribal land.
    Book Excerpt

    How a Small Town Murder in Oklahoma Sparked a Supreme Court Battle Over Tribal Sovereignty

    On the independence of the Muscogee Nation.
    by Rebecca Nagle via Literary Hub on September 10, 2024
  • Map of Cherokee Allotment from the Dawes Commission.
    Book Excerpt

    Coercion

    “Allotment”—and its repercussions.
    by Rebecca Nagle via Los Angeles Review of Books on September 8, 2024
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