By the Fire We Carry

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NONFICTION A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 • An Esquire Best Book of Fall 2024 • Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard First Book Prize 'Reads like a legal thriller' ESQUIRE 'As propulsive and affecting as it is infuriating' VANITY FAIR A powerful work of reportage and American history that braids together 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.By contrast, nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests - in the emergence of the United States as a nation, the government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous p