By the Fire We Carry

"[A] brilliant, kaleidoscopic debut. . . . Nagle's narrative is lucid and moving . . . . a showstopper." — Publishers Weekly, starred review The Washington Post Most Anticipated Fall Read • Los Angeles Times and Parade Most Anticipated September Release • Bustle Most Anticipated Fall Read • Book Riot Most Anticipated September Nonfiction Release 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...