Catching Up to a Cherokee and Muscogee Understanding of the Government

My guest today is Rebecca Nagle, an award-winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation, and the author of By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land. Rebecca details the history of violence, dispossession, and resistance behind a monumental Supreme Court case decided in 2020. The case resulted in the restoration of tribal land, but it’s not exactly all unicorns and rainbows now. Rather, in Rebecca’s words, the victory reveals “what can happen when the U.S. government follows the law, even though it has a tendency not to.”