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

By the Fire We Carry

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

2024 • 336 pages

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"A powerful work of reportage and American history in the vein of Caste and How the Word Is Passed that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small-town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century later"--


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The author does a great job of blending her family's part in the story she tells with the story of the tribes relocated to Oklahoma and the challenges of working thru the legal system to correct sovereign boundaries.

November 30, 2024
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