A work of reportage and American history in the vein of Caste and How the Word Is Passed 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 '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over a century later.
Nagle is skilled at explaining the intricacies of the legal arguments in terms that a layperson can understand ... The most compelling moments in the book — which can feel dense at times because of the amount of information packed into fewer than 250 pages — are when Nagle zooms in on particular people and experiences ... Impeccably researched, with more than 70 pages of meticulous endnotes in which Nagle cites her sources for every fact, claim, quote and narrative she covers. It’s a fascinating book and an important one.
Thrilling ... Combining impeccable research with rich detail and scintillating prose, Nagle tells a story that is two hundred years in the making and enormously relevant today.
