
By the Fire We Carry
The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
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Rebecca Nagle
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“Rebecca Nagle gives a clear and compelling narration of her look into how a small-town murder in the Muscogee Nation led to a significant 2020 Supreme Court case—and the largest restoration of Native tribal land in American history. . . . An illuminating listen.” — AudioFile
""Impeccably researched. . . . A fascinating book and an important one.” — Washington Post
“[A] brilliant, kaleidoscopic debut. . . . Nagle’s narrative is lucid and moving. . . . A showstopper.” — Publishers Weekly, starred review
Most Anticipated Book of the Fall: Washington Post, People, Los Angeles Times, Parade, Bustle, Book Riot
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
Before 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—in the emergence of this great nation, our 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 defense attorneys argued the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe, and therefore Oklahoma didn’t 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’s own Cherokee Nation.
Here 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, By the Fire We Carry 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.
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Only 30 years ago, rape within marriage was not a crime, Judges saw rape victims as complicit for wearing short skirts; teenage runaways were groomed, pimped and then arrested as ‘common prostitutes’, and harassment, stalking, forced marriage and honour-based violence were not defined or recognised as separate offences in law. Since then there have been important legislative reforms but the law is only as good as those who enforce it. Telling the stories of a series of ground-breaking cases, Harriet Wistrich illustrates how far misogyny is baked into our justice system.
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Feminist? No, It's just typical Commie garbage
- By Amazon Customer on 05-07-24
By: Harriet Wistrich
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What the Wild Sea Can Be
- The Future of the World’s Ocean
- By: Helen Scales
- Narrated by: Helen Scales
- Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
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Offering innovative ideas for protecting coastlines and cleaning the toxic seas, Scales insists we need more ethical and sustainable fisheries and must prevent the other existential threat of deep-sea mining, which could significantly alter life on earth. Inspiring us all to maintain a sense of awe and wonder at the majesty beneath the waves, she urges us to fight for the better future that still exists for the Anthropocene ocean.
By: Helen Scales
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Agent Zo
- The Untold Story of a Fearless World War II Resistance Fighter
- By: Clare Mulley
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton, Clare Mulley
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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During World War II, Elzbieta Zawacka—the WWII female resistance fighter known as Agent Zo—was the only woman to reach London as an emissary of the Polish Home Army command. In Britain, she became the only woman to join the Polish elite Special Forces, known as the "Silent Unseen." She was secretly trained in the British countryside, and then she was the only female member of these forces to be parachuted back behind enemy lines to Nazi-occupied Poland.
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Agent Zo
- By Cam on 03-05-25
By: Clare Mulley
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The Rediscovery of America
- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- By: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrated by: Jason Grasl
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- By Nathaniel Sterling on 03-04-24
By: Ned Blackhawk
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Before the Movement
- The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
- By: Dylan C. Penningroth
- Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
- Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
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In Before the Movement, Dylan C. Penningroth brilliantly revises the conventional story. Drawing on long-forgotten sources found in the basements of county courthouses across the nation, Penningroth reveals that African Americans, far from being ignorant about law until the middle of the twentieth century, have thought about, talked about, and used it going as far back as even the era of slavery.
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Highway of Tears
- By: Jessica McDiarmid
- Narrated by: Emily Nixon
- Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
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For decades, Indigenous women and girls have gone missing or been found murdered along an isolated stretch of highway in Northwestern British Columbia. The corridor is known as the Highway of Tears, and it has come to symbolize a national crisis. Journalist Jessica McDiarmid meticulously investigates the devastating effect these tragedies have had on the families of the victims and their communities and how systemic racism and indifference have created a climate in which Indigenous women and girls are overpoliced yet underprotected.
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Poignant and disturbing
- By Buretto on 11-24-19
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Vigilante Nation
- How State-Sponsored Terror Threatens Our Democracy
- By: Jon Michaels, David Noll
- Narrated by: Eric Yang
- Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
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Time and again, when confronted with serious challenges to their power and privilege, white Christian nationalists seek solace—and satisfaction—in state-supported forms of vigilantism. Vigilante Nation tells this story of the American Right marginalizing, subordinating, and disenfranchising the increasingly diverse and cosmopolitan members of the American polity. This book exposes the vigilantes’ plans, explains their methods—everything from book bans to anti-abortion bounties to attacks on government proceedings, including elections—and underscores the stakes.
By: Jon Michaels, and others
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Antidemocratic
- Inside the Far Right’s 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections
- By: David Daley
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 17 hrs and 45 mins
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In 1981, a young lawyer, fresh out of Harvard law school, joined the Reagan administration’s Department of Justice, taking up a cause that had been fomenting in Republican circles for over a decade by that point. From his perch inside the Reagan DOJ, this lawyer would attempt to bring down one of the defining pieces of 20th century legislation—the Voting Rights Act. His name was John Roberts.
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Lessons in Truth
- By Reggie Clark on 09-04-24
By: David Daley
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The Icon and the Idealist
- Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry That Brought Birth Control to America
- By: Stephanie Gorton
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 12 hrs and 41 mins
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In the 1910s, as the birth control movement was born, two leaders emerged: Margaret Sanger and Mary Dennett. Sanger would go on to found Planned Parenthood, while Dennett’s name has largely faded from public awareness. Each held a radically different vision for what reproductive autonomy and birth control access should look like in America. Few are aware of the fierce personal and political rivalry that played out between Sanger and Dennett over decades—a battle that had a profound impact on the lives of American women.
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I already knew a lot about this issue, i thought. But this book taught me a great deal.
- By Louise Beecher on 01-13-25
By: Stephanie Gorton
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How to Live Free in a Dangerous World
- A Decolonial Memoir
- By: Shayla Lawson
- Narrated by: Shayla Lawson
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
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In their new book, Shayla Lawson reveals how traveling can itself be a political act, when it can be a dangerous world to be Black, femme, nonbinary, and disabled. With their signature prose, at turns bold, muscular, and luminous, Shayla Lawson travels the world to explore deeper meanings held within love, time, and the self.
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Vulnerable and honest
- By Kinga on 11-26-24
By: Shayla Lawson
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The Persians
- By: Sanam Mahloudji
- Narrated by: Donia Bijan, Lanna Joffrey, Nikki Massoud, and others
- Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
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Meet the Valiat family. In Iran, they were somebodies. In America, they’re nobodies. First there is Elizabeth, the regal matriarch with the famously large nose, who remained in Tehran despite the revolution. She lives alone but is sometimes visited by Niaz, her Islamic-law-breaking granddaughter, who takes her partying with a side of purpose and yet manages to survive. Elizabeth’s daughters wound up in America: Shirin, a charismatic and flamboyantly high-flying event planner in Houston, who considers herself the family’s future, and Seema, a dreamy idealist turned housewife.
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Excellent
- By Suzanna on 03-09-25
By: Sanam Mahloudji
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Where the Dead Sit Talking
- By: Brandon Hobson
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
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With his mother in jail, Sequoyah, a 15-year-old Cherokee boy, is placed in foster care with the Troutt family. Literally and figuratively scarred by his unstable upbringing, Sequoyah has spent years mostly keeping to himself, living with his emotions pressed deep below the surface - that is, until he meets the 17-year-old Rosemary, another youth staying with the Troutts. Sequoyah and Rosemary bond over their shared Native American backgrounds and paths through the foster care system, but as Sequoyah's feelings toward Rosemary deepen, the precariousness of their lives and the scars of their pasts threaten to undo them both.
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Indigeneity fell short
- By Joleen Scott on 08-01-18
By: Brandon Hobson
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- Katherine F Stewart
- 11-20-24
The Truth
I found the author’s use of moving between Supreme Court Rulings and American history to be incredibly effective.
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- L. John
- 11-04-24
great!
A must read for all Indigenous People!! You will feel all of the emotions! Well written.
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- Doug
- 02-27-25
An Incredible Feat of History, Research, and Narrative
An incredible book. Important, contemporary, and compelling. The author’s expertise and empathy are on full display.
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- Annie H
- 11-22-24
Amazing book
Nagle approaches difficult topics with clear eyes and a sense of complexity. She works hard to lay out the history of the US, Oklahoma, the tribes, and her own family. Highly recommend.
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- Nast Marrero
- 09-22-24
A precious piece of native history
This book is a precious piece for history and a unique work of investigative journalism inquiring into literal justice and transgressions against native people in the United States of America. The author, Rebecca Nagle is a living treasure for Humanity.
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- S. Armor
- 04-12-25
So great to see the full story after This Land pod
I’ve been following this story since first listening to the This Land podcast. This book expands the story greatly, obviously. It is fascinating. The author does a wonderful job with the narration.
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- EBGB
- 03-16-25
A Must-Read
You can tell from the outset this book was written with a deep care for truth. The author did a fantastic job of providing a rich context for the Murphy decision. I especially appreciate that the book was not just a cut and dry analysis, but an amalgam of human stories.
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- KAM
- 02-22-25
Bravo!
The information in this book left me reeling. I have known since I was a teen that I was a Choctaw decendant, but only as an adult did I obtain my Certificate of Degree of Indian Blood and keep contact with the tribe. I have grown more and more curious as I age about my heritage, and the atrocities that European Americans imposed on the indigenous people who were here long before they arrived. I am also happy to see her hold the tribes accountable for their own mistakes. It is shameful and disgusting that politicians still think so little of the people that were trampled on, abused, and stolen from in the making of America. What a hypocrisy.
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- Taylor G
- 09-30-24
Truth
Loved hearing the native side of the history. History is written by the victors and this book tells the other side which is painful to hear but necessary.
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- Alicia
- 11-21-24
Educational
This book taught me about so many events impacting first nations individuals, events I should have known about that I definitely did not. The stories did a good job of telling the facts in a way that made me not only aware of their existence but also allowed me to feel anger, frustration and sadness in regards to these injustices past and present.
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