Rebecca Nagle on the Long and Ongoing Battle for Tribal Sovereignty and Land

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🗓️ 9 September 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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A truly landmark Supreme Court decision in 2020 resulted in the largest restoration of Native American tribal land in American history. More than half of the state of Oklahoma is now declared “Indian Country” after the court decision. In her book “By the Fire We Carry” journalist Rebecca Nagel, a member of the Cherokee Nation, traces the generations-long fight for sovereignty and the brutal history of tribal land removal that underpinned the decision. We’ll talk to Nagle about her own family’s complicated legacy in the struggle for justice and the implications of the Supreme Court decision. Guests: Rebecca Nagle, author, By the Fire We Carry, The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land, host of the podcast "This Land" - She's also an activist, writer and citizen of the Cherokee Nation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:30.3	From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal. More than half of the state of Oklahoma is once again recognized as Native American land
1:35.3	after a landmark 2020 Supreme Court case.
1:38.3	Yes, that is the point of fact law, but what does it mean?
1:41.3	And how'd that decision come to be made?
1:43.3	That's the subject of journalist and member of the Cherokee Nation, Rebecca Nagel's powerful
1:48.2	new book by the fire we carry.
1:50.9	This is a history of our country that every American should read.
1:54.4	It's not a pretty story, but Nagel narrates it beautifully and honestly, including her own family's
1:59.7	role in our government's brutal dispossession
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