{"product_id":"by-the-fire-we-carry-the-generations-long-fight-for-justice-on-native-land-paperback","title":"By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land","description":"\u003cdiv data-a-expander-name=\"book_description_expander\" data-a-expander-collapsed-height=\"280\" class=\"a-expander-collapsed-height a-row a-expander-container a-spacing-base a-expander-partial-collapse-container\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 280px;\"\u003e \u003cdiv data-expanded=\"false\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"No part of the judiciary exposes the chasm between American ideals and institutional practice like federal Indian law. In\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e By the Fire We Carry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, Nagle, a Cherokee journalist, turns a case most Americans haven‚Äôt heard of into a legal thriller.\" ‚Äî\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äôs Best Books of 2024\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Top 10 Book of the Year\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ NPR 2024 ‚ÄúBooks We Loved‚Äù Pick ‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eEsquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Best Book of the Year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Nonfiction of 2024 ‚Ä¢\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Ä¢ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‚Äúimpeccably researched‚Äù (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation‚Äôs 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBefore 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests‚Äîin the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 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 the waters ran. But that promise was not kept. When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee land, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a century later, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorneys argued the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe, and therefore Oklahoma didn‚Äôt have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma asserted that the reservation no longer existed. In the summer of 2020, the Supreme Court settled the dispute. Its ruling that would ultimately underpin multiple reservations covering almost half the land in Oklahoma, including Nagle‚Äôs own Cherokee Nation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere Rebecca Nagle recounts 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBy the Fire We Carry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e stands as a landmark work of American history. The story it tells exposes both the wrongs that our nation has committed and the Native-led battle for justice that has shaped our country. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\" style=\"opacity: 1; display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-content-fade\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"javascript:void(0)\" role=\"button\" data-action=\"a-expander-toggle\" class=\"a-declarative\" data-a-expander-toggle='{\"allowLinkDefault\":true, \"expand_prompt\":\"Read more\", \"collapse_prompt\":\"Read less\"}'\u003e\u003ci class=\"a-icon a-icon-extender-expand\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-expander-prompt\"\u003eRead more\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50548212302109,"sku":"9780063112056","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0901\/5692\/5213\/files\/9780063112056.jpg?v=1761675947","url":"https:\/\/bookdelico.com\/products\/by-the-fire-we-carry-the-generations-long-fight-for-justice-on-native-land-paperback","provider":"Book Delico ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}