pickWhile this imparts a powerful history of the forced removal, disenfranchisement, and legal gymnastics against American Indians throughout history, it confusingly starts with a very detailed account of a murder of which the details have zero relevance to the rest of the book. It was confusing and set up a false expectation for the rest of the book. It should be read by every American citizen, but just don't get invested in the Jacobs murder...
Completed ✅
pickAn eye-opening and horrifying, but absolutely necessary, read. This provides a good overview of the history of indigenous people in the United States from their perspective. It also connects a lot of dots as to how United States military policy is still influenced by the genocide inflicted on Native peoples.
#realhistory #honesthistory #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #readingispolitical
May reading (I have about 60 pages left of Flamingo so I am counting it for May)
It was a lot of good not amazing books.
4.5 ⭐
By The Fire We Carry
4 ⭐
A House For Miss Pauline
Hula
Conversations w/Friends
Flamingo
3.75 ⭐
A Master of Djinn
Deep Water
I Think They Love You
Some Desperate Glory
3.5 ⭐
A Leopard-Skin Hat
Colored Television
The Dark Maestro
The Phantom of the Opera
The Chromatic Fantasy
3 ⭐
Crazy Rich Asians
By the Book
#BookReport
Continued with my yearlong reads
Continued the buddy reads: Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lamentation #ShardlakeBR
I finished By the Fire We Carry, Autocracy Inc. and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond
I continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
I‘ve started Sister in Law, A Leopard-Skin Hat and on audio Weyward
pick"The McGirt decision resulted in the largest restoration of tribal land in US history."
Nagle does an amazing job telling you many different stories of Native people, while also explaining how the US government committed genocide on them, mixing history and current court cases to paint a detailed and complex picture of the Muscogee land. The writing is exceptional, very easy to read and understand.
"As long as the grass grows or the water runs"
"Chief Justice Roberts repeated the lies told about the Five Tribes to justify allotment."
As someone who followed not only this case closely but also follows the SCOTUS closely each year I hope that people get that CJ Roberts is an asshole out of this book (while also understanding that Gorsuch was right here but always wrong everywhere else - also a jackass but does good in this area)
"Oil and gas producers don't fight regulation as it comes up; the industry lays the groundwork to ensure future regulation is not possible."
"(Oil &gas industry) Organized (..) laws preempting bans on plastic bags- a petroleum product. As of 2020, fifteen states have banned the banning of plastic bags, while only eight limit their use. "
Asif I needed another reason to always use my tote bags.
#BookReport
Read The Illustrious Client
Finished Our Share of Night
Continued with my yearlong reads on the right
Continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit and Autocracy Inc
I‘ve started Northanger Abbey #PembetLittens #JaneAustenThenandNow, Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond
#WeeklyForecast
Continue with my current reads and hopefully finish some.
Start Sister in Law
Scott Braden worked in the public defender's office at the same time as Lisa and is a citizen of Osage Nation. Seeing how capital punishment worked from the inside solidified his opposition of it. "It really is a crusade on the part of prosecutors and staff to build political careers on the backs of the poor," he told me. "The poor are the ones that get executed. The rich don't get executed."
1 of my top reasons for being anti- execution.
