In "By the Fire We Carry"\, Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eas tern Oklahoma. By chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and histo ric acts of Indigenous resistance\, "By the Fire We Carry" stands as a lan dmark 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. \;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 n ot kept. Over a century later\, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorne ys argued the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe\, and theref ore Oklahoma didn&rsquo\;t have the jurisdiction to execute him. In the su mmer of 2020\, the Supreme Court settled the dispute. Its ruling that woul d ultimately underpin multiple reservations covering almost half the land in Oklahoma\, including Nagle&rsquo\;s own Cherokee Nation. \;
\nRebecca Nagle is an award winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation. She is the author of "By The Fire We Carry: The Gener ation-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" and the writer and host of th e podcast This Land. Her writing on Native representation\, federal Indian law\, and tribal sovereignty has been featured in the Atlantic\, the Wash ington Post\, The Guardian\, USA Today\, Indian Country Today\, and more. Rebecca Nagle is the recipient of the Lukas Book Prize\, the American Mosa ic Journalism Prize\, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Awar d\, a Peabody Nominee\, and the Women&rsquo\;s Media Center&rsquo\;s Excep tional Journalism Award. Nagle lives in Tahlequah\, OK. Indigenous communi ties deserve the same standard of journalism as the rest of the country\, but rarely receive it from non-Native media outlets. Nagle&lsquo\;s journa lism seeks to correct this. From the census\, to COVID\, to the Supreme Co urt\, Nagle focuses on deeply and timely reporting that sheds light on iss ues of national importance.
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