Rebecca Nagle

By the Fire We Carry (eBook, ePUB)

The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A powerful work of reportage and American history 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.

Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forestsin the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples. That changed on July 9, 2020, when a high-profile Supreme Court casewhich originated with a small-town murder two decades earlieraffirmed the reservation of Muscogee Nation. The ruling resulted in the largest restoration of tribal land in U.S. history, merely because the Court chose to follow the law.

In the 1830s Muscogee people were rounded 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 create on top of their land, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a century later, when a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen, his defense attorneys argued the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe, and therefore Oklahoma didn't have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma argued that reservation no longer existed. In the summer of 2020, the Supreme Court said: no more; a ruling that would ultimately underpin multiple reservations covering half the land in Oklahoma, including Nagle's own Cherokee Nation.

Here Rebecca Nagle tells the story of 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. The story it tells exposes both the wrongs that our nation has committed in its long history of greed, corruption and lawlessness, and the Native battle for the right to be here that has shaped our country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780063112063
• Artikelnr.: 69124507

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Nagle is an award-winning journalist and a citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation, federal Indian law, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic, the Washington Post, the Guardian, USA Today, Indian Country Today, and other publications. She is a Peabody Award nominee and the recipient of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize, Women's Media Center's Exceptional Journalism Award, and numerous honors from the Native American Journalist Association. Nagle lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

Indigenous communities deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. Nagle's journalism seeks to correct this.

Rezensionen

'A narrative as propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating'

VANITY FAIR

'Nagle's gripping historical and legal chronicle sheds light on a centuries-long struggle for Indigenous sovereignty and tribal land in Oklahoma'

NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

'This richly reported book centres on McGirt v. Oklahoma, a Supreme Court case that, when it was decided, in 2020, reaffirmed Native American sovereignty over large parts of the state... Throughout the book, Nagle places these events in the context of centuries of injustice'

NEW YORKER

'A fascinating book and an important one... She compellingly describes not only the historical wrongs committed against Indigenous peoples, but also how we can't excuse those wrongs by assuming that they were acceptable to their contemporaries because of some kind of lesser moral standard'

WASHINGTON POST

'Terrific... Nagle writes with sensitivity and empathy for the Native American communities she grew up in and around'

ATLANTIC

'A powerful history....Blending reportage and historical research into a propulsive narrative that reads like a legal thriller....Detailed and impassioned, it's a gripping corrective to the historical record, and not to be missed'

ESQUIRE

'Breathtaking: essential reading for anyone yet to understand who US law exists to serve, and who it exists to exploit. Nagle's book achieves impeccable balance; it's a call for hope which still never loses sight of the labour and blood underpinning every victory in this rigged system. A triumph'

NOREEN MASUD, author of A Flat Place

'Compellingly told and deeply researched, Nagle's timely work brilliantly reveals the sweeping and yet profoundly personal consequences of ongoing Indigenous struggles for sovereignty'

CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK, author of On Savage Shores

'A fiery account as chilling as a legal thriller... By the Fire We Carry is a clear and courageous call for justice'

TIYA MILES, author of All that She Carried