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Your support empowers Indigenous media and our podcasts. Thank you so much. Ahia. a year. So we're excited to have frequent guest of the podcast Rebecca Nag, back on the show to discuss her book that

just came out last September.

And it's titled By the Fire We Carry.

Actually, it's quite a spanning history.

It's like several centuries of history.

There's quite a bit of back and forth between the chapters, which I thought was a pretty

kind of an amazing kind of stylistic choice, how they alternated between the past and the

present, slowly kind of catching up and synchronizing as the book progresses. There's a lot to

talk about in this book, Rebecca, and thanks for joining us. Yeah, I don't know if you want to

introduce yourself or say anything about the book. Oseo, O'i Annika, Gohin, Daewton, Talek, Janelle. My name's

Rebecca Nagle. I'm a citizen of Cherokee Nation. I live in Talakwa. It's born in Joppa, Missouri.

Yeah, and I wrote, By the Fire We Carry, the Generations Long

Fight for Justice on Native Land. And it covers a 2020 Supreme Court case that resulted in the largest

restoration of tribal land in U.S. history. And the case started in a surprising place as a murder,

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