By the Fire We Carry
Before 2020, Native American reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests—in the emergence of this great nation, the U.S. government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples. That changed on July 9, 2020, when a high-profile Supreme Court case affirmed the reservation of Muscogee Nation. The ruling resulted in the largest restoration of tribal land in U.S. history. When a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen, his defence attorneys argued the murder occurred on reservation land. But, the State still held that the reservation no longer existed. This case went all the way to the Supreme Court, where in 2020 the justices ruled on the side of the Muscogee nation. Here Rebecca Nagle tells the story of the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in Eastern Oklahoma.
  • Publisher: William Collins UK
  • Publication date: 12/09/2024
  • ISBN: 9780008725013
  • Page extent: 352
  • Format: Paperback
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