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# Rebecca Nagle
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/ideas-festival/speakers/rebecca-nagle/
- Published: 2026-03-20T21:58:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-21T23:01:09.000Z
- Author: Rebecca Nagle
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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.

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****By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land**

An “impeccably researched” (**Washington Post*) work of reportage and American history 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 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than a century later. Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma. By chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance, **By the Fire We Carry* stands as a landmark work of American history. The story it tells exposes both the wrongs that our nation has committed and the Native-led battle for justice that has shaped our country. 

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