📗 Libro en inglés BY THE FIRE WE CARRY

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 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 defens