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Breathtaking a triumph'' NOREEN MASUD''A fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller'' TIYA MILES''Compellingly told and deeply researched'' CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCKA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together 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 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

By the Fire We Carry

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Breathtaking a triumph'' NOREEN MASUD''A fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller'' TIYA MILES''Compellingly told and deeply researched'' CAROLINE... Read more

    Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
    Publication Date: 9/12/2024
    ISBN13: 9780008725006, 978-0008725006
    ISBN10: 0008725004

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

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    Breathtaking a triumph'' NOREEN MASUD''A fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller'' TIYA MILES''Compellingly told and deeply researched'' CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCKA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together 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 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

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