Chapter 16
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Allen Boyer

Betrayal and Justice

By the Fire We Carry tells a story of Native American land lost and regained

By the Fire We Carry, by Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle, tells how the Five Tribes of frontier history (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Muscogee, and Seminole) were dispossessed first of their Southeastern homelands, then of their reservation lands in Oklahoma — until finally, against the odds, they won back their treaty rights in court.

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