National Bestsellera Barnes Noble Best Book of the Year Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction ""Impeccably researched. . .. A fascinating book and an important one. Washington Post[A] brilliant, kaleidoscopic debut. . .. Nagle's narrative is lucid and moving. . .. A showstopper. Publishers Weekly, starred review Most Anticipated Book of the Fall Washington Post, People, Los Angeles Times, Parade, Bustle, Book Riot, and Literary HubA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nations 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 Before 2020, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of land in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for National Forests in the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples. In the 1830s Muscogee people were rounded up by the Us military at gunpoint and forced into exile halfway across the continent. At the time, they…