BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//indianafreelibrary.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10
 //
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
UID:b83995dc-ad21-495c-8eb3-285d07fda07f
X-WR-CALDESC:True Story Book Club\n\nBy the Fire We Carry: The Generations-
 Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle (352 p.)\n\nBefore 
 2020\, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of la
 nd in the United States. Nearly 200 million acres are reserved for Nationa
 l Forests—in the emergence of this great nation\, our government set aside
  more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples.\n\nIn the 1830s Muscogee
  people were rounded up by the US military at gunpoint and forced into exi
 le halfway across the continent. At the time\, they were promised this new
  land would be theirs for as long as the grass grew and the waters ran. Bu
 t that promise was not kept. When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee 
 land\, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a c
 entury later\, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering ano
 ther Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorneys argued the mur
 der occurred on the reservation of his tribe\, and therefore Oklahoma didn
 ’t have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma asserted that the reserv
 ation no longer existed. In the summer of 2020\, the Supreme Court settled
  the dispute. Its ruling that would ultimately underpin multiple reservati
 ons covering almost half the land in Oklahoma\, including Nagle’s own Cher
 okee Nation. \n\nHere Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations-long fight fo
 r 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 stor
 y it tells exposes both the wrongs that our nation has committed and the N
 ative-led battle for justice that has shaped our country.
X-WR-RELCALID:5a97909444383abde98ee70e00eaecff
X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/New_York
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20271107T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
RDATE:20281105T020000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20270314T020000
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
RDATE:20280312T020000
RDATE:20290311T020000
END:DAYLIGHT
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:d551f920-f06c-4869-be6d-e82ec42c890a
DTSTAMP:20261101T045612Z
DESCRIPTION:True Story Book Club\n\nBy the Fire We Carry: The Generations-L
 ong Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle (352 p.)\n\nBefore 2
 020\, American Indian reservations made up roughly 55 million acres of lan
 d 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.\n\nIn the 1830s Muscogee 
 people were rounded up by the US military at gunpoint and forced into exil
 e halfway across the continent. At the time\, they were promised this new 
 land would be theirs for as long as the grass grew and the waters ran. But
  that promise was not kept. When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee l
 and\, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a ce
 ntury later\, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering anot
 her Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorneys argued the murd
 er occurred on the reservation of his tribe\, and therefore Oklahoma didn’
 t have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma asserted that the reserva
 tion no longer existed. In the summer of 2020\, the Supreme Court settled 
 the dispute. Its ruling that would ultimately underpin multiple reservatio
 ns covering almost half the land in Oklahoma\, including Nagle’s own Chero
 kee Nation. \n\nHere 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 Na
 tive-led battle for justice that has shaped our country.
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20271102T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20271102T120000
LOCATION:
SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fi
 ght for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR