Rebecca Nagle is an award winning journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation. Nagle’s debut book, By The Fire We Carry: the Generations-long Fight for Justice on Native Land, was an instant national bestseller, a New Yorker Book of the Year and won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize and was a finalist for the Chautauqua Prize and numerous other awards. Nagle is also the writer and host of the podcast This Land. Nagle lives in Tahlequah, OK.
Native people have been written out of the American story—without us, you don’t know what happened. As the U.S. marks 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, First America reveals how the nation came to be—and how today’s politics were shaped.
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The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival is a full-day event featuring live podcast recordings and studio television tapings by The Atlantic, NPR, The New Yorker, CNN, PBS, Wondery, Pushkin, and more. Watch live as journalists, newsmakers, and thought leaders from around the world discuss the biggest issues of our time. Plus, community meetups, speaker meet-and-greets, micro-sessions, food trucks, DJs, and artists. Join us on June 6th at Fremont Studios, Picklr and Hidden Hall in the heart of Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.
The Cascade PBS Ideas Festival offers a program that provides a spectrum of viewpoints, experiences and affiliations, and welcomes members of many communities. As a public media organization, we are responsible to act as a neutral mediator. We believe that the best way to bridge our divides is to hear from people with whom we might disagree, and to ask each other hard questions.
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