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The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
Paperback
HISTORY/Indigenous / General
National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist for the John Leonard Prize and Longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Nonfiction A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids 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
“Impeccably researched. . . . A fascinating book and an important one.”—Washington Post
“A triumph. I cannot think of a book that more powerfully illustrates that the past is never dead.”—Claudio Saunt, author of Unworthy Republic
“This is great storytelling, dogged reporting, and a compelling personal tale all wrapped in a book that should live for years to come.”—Timothy Egan, author of A Fever in the Heartland
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