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"The McGirt decision resulted in the largest restoration of tribal land in US history."

Nagle does an amazing job telling you many different stories of Native people, while also explaining how the US government committed genocide on them, mixing history and current court cases to paint a detailed and complex picture of the Muscogee land. The writing is exceptional, very easy to read and understand.
"As long as the grass grows or the water runs"

"Chief Justice Roberts repeated the lies told about the Five Tribes to justify allotment."

As someone who followed not only this case closely but also follows the SCOTUS closely each year I hope that people get that CJ Roberts is an asshole out of this book (while also understanding that Gorsuch was right here but always wrong everywhere else - also a jackass but does good in this area)

"Oil and gas producers don't fight regulation as it comes up; the industry lays the groundwork to ensure future regulation is not possible."

"(Oil &gas industry) Organized (..) laws preempting bans on plastic bags- a petroleum product. As of 2020, fifteen states have banned the banning of plastic bags, while only eight limit their use. "

Asif I needed another reason to always use my tote bags.

#BookReport

Read The Illustrious Client

Finished Our Share of Night

Continued with my yearlong reads on the right

Continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit and Autocracy Inc

I‘ve started Northanger Abbey #PembetLittens #JaneAustenThenandNow, Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my current reads and hopefully finish some.
Start Sister in Law

Scott Braden worked in the public defender's office at the same time as Lisa and is a citizen of Osage Nation. Seeing how capital punishment worked from the inside solidified his opposition of it. "It really is a crusade on the part of prosecutors and staff to build political careers on the backs of the poor," he told me. "The poor are the ones that get executed. The rich don't get executed."

1 of my top reasons for being anti- execution.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Hopefully finish Our Share of Night and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

Read The Illustrious Client #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Start Lamentations #ShardlakeBR and Autocracy Inc.

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I finished the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and Eloquent Rage #SheSaid

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued By the Fire We Carry, A Thousand Threads and Our Share of Night

I‘ve started the poetry collection Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

#BookReport

Finished Nesting

Continued with the yearlong reads on the right

Continued the buddy reads; Eloquent Rage #SheSaid and Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

I continued reading Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and What the Wild Sea Can Be

I continued listening to the tagged

I started There‘s a Monster Behind the Door

#BookReport

Continue yearlong reads on the right

Continue Heartstone #ShardlakeBR and Eloquent Rage #SheSaid

Continue What the Wild Sea Can Be and Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

Continue listening to the tagged

Finish Nesting and then I‘ll see what I‘m in the mood for next

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I finished Intermezzo and read Perfection

I continued the yearlong reads on the right

I pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve started What the Wild Sea Can Be, Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and Nesting

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

Finish Intermezzo

I just started What the Wild Sea Can Be and what to read some more in that

Read Perfection

Start the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

#BookReport

It‘s towards the end of the month, so I finished the monthlong buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I put the Tiller book on pause for now

I‘ve started Intermezzo

Another excellent selection from the #wpnf25 long list. Centering on the ups and downs and legal manipulations of a Supreme Court decision, Nagle explores Indigenous Land Rights in the US. It is sad and infuriating, with occasional glimmers of hope.

Centered around a recent Supreme Court case, this is a look at Native land rights and the myriad of ways the US government has stolen land throughout history and reneged on its promises, including some of the unbelievable current laws that try to keep Native populations powerless. Reading it made my blood boil and I kept wishing more people would read this although I fear those who truly need the history lesson never will.

The legal doctrines the US created to take Indigenous land still govern how the US treats those living at the margins...

Powerful end to a powerful book.

As recently as 2022, Justice Samuel Alito argued that Indigenous nations do not share a common political interest, because "before the arrival of Europeans, the tribes were at war with each other."

What is sad about these statements is that Supreme Court justices are no better or worse than the general public; most people don't know what a federally recognized tribe is, how jurisdiction works on a reservation...

In a personal letter to President Monroe in 1817, Jackson confessed that he had long viewed treaties with Indigenous nations as an "absurdity." Such treaties were necessary, Jackson wrote, when Indigenous nations were strong and the federal government was still weak, but now, "circumstances have entirely changed." ?

45 years! At 14!🤯

#WomensPrizeLL25

Nagle looks at a modern day jurisdictional debate as well as the history of US government behavior regarding native peoples in this book. While I liked all the parts of it, it didn‘t entirely work for me as a whole. The current story is regarding the Muskogee reservation but much of the past history was about her own Cherokee family. I found that split a little confusing and would have liked to see one or the other as the focus. #WPNF25

I wrote this book because I believe the American public needs to understand that the legacy of colonization is not just a problem for Indigenous peoples, but a problem for our democracy.

#WomensPrizeLL25

“I wrote this book because I believe the American people need to understand that the legacy of colonization is not just a problem for Indigenous peoples but a problem for our democracy.
And, selfishly, I wrote this book because the story lived in my body and I needed it to come out.”

Heartbreaking, maddening, unbelievable what the white man has perpetrated against the Native American people. This should be required reading, in order to understand the systematic way people were removed from land, the way entire ways of life have been destroyed. This begins with a crime and a legal battle over tribal lands and jurisdiction which I felt was a great way to introduce the many and varied ways tribes have been denied rights.

I had two 5-star reads in November, and both tie into injustices.

The tagged book is a true crime story, but it‘s more than that—it‘s about laws and injustices against Indigenous communities. Nagle provides a history of wrongs and the constant struggle the communities face. This even involves a Supreme Court case. Be ready to be angry.

The Book Censor‘s Library was so good! Satire that is way too close to reality. #12BooksOf2024

@WildAlaskaBibliophile and I do our own jolabokaflod exchange on Christmas Eve. Here's what I got! I've been wanting to get into the Locked Tomb trilogy for a while, but I think I'm going to start with the tagged book!

This should be required reading for every American. Seriously.

Part true crime and part history, Nagle writes a clear and blunt look at the treatment of Indigenous communities since the founding of the US. Nagle, who is a citizen of the Cherokee nation, reports on the sins of everyone, including her ancestors—everyone has dark secrets. There are very scary parallels to today‘s world; I‘m not sure if it was wise or prudent to read this now. 5 ✨

“The fight over truth is so bitter because power flows from the dominant narrative—the power to shape both public sentiment and public policy.”

I barely made it to page two of the Prologue and found this. It resonates so well today, and for Nagle, a member of the Cherokee nation, it speaks volumes to the mistruths about the indigenous past.

#TodayILearned #NFNovember