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Continue yearlong reads on the right

Continue Heartstone #ShardlakeBR and Eloquent Rage #SheSaid

Continue What the Wild Sea Can Be and Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

Continue listening to the tagged

Finish Nesting and then I‘ll see what I‘m in the mood for next

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I finished Intermezzo and read Perfection

I continued the yearlong reads on the right

I pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve started What the Wild Sea Can Be, Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and Nesting

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Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

Finish Intermezzo

I just started What the Wild Sea Can Be and what to read some more in that

Read Perfection

Start the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

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It‘s towards the end of the month, so I finished the monthlong buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I put the Tiller book on pause for now

I‘ve started Intermezzo

Another excellent selection from the #wpnf25 long list. Centering on the ups and downs and legal manipulations of a Supreme Court decision, Nagle explores Indigenous Land Rights in the US. It is sad and infuriating, with occasional glimmers of hope.

Centered around a recent Supreme Court case, this is a look at Native land rights and the myriad of ways the US government has stolen land throughout history and reneged on its promises, including some of the unbelievable current laws that try to keep Native populations powerless. Reading it made my blood boil and I kept wishing more people would read this although I fear those who truly need the history lesson never will.

The legal doctrines the US created to take Indigenous land still govern how the US treats those living at the margins...

Powerful end to a powerful book.

As recently as 2022, Justice Samuel Alito argued that Indigenous nations do not share a common political interest, because "before the arrival of Europeans, the tribes were at war with each other."

What is sad about these statements is that Supreme Court justices are no better or worse than the general public; most people don't know what a federally recognized tribe is, how jurisdiction works on a reservation...

In a personal letter to President Monroe in 1817, Jackson confessed that he had long viewed treaties with Indigenous nations as an "absurdity." Such treaties were necessary, Jackson wrote, when Indigenous nations were strong and the federal government was still weak, but now, "circumstances have entirely changed." ?

45 years! At 14!🤯

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