The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance tribal belonging and that peculiar status has

and that peculiar status has led to legal and political disputes—with vast sums of money hanging in the balance

the words of Keewaydinoquay contain layers of understanding

but she simply won't leave the store

telling her story straight―the white people's way

Rifkin illustrates how time plays a crucial role in Indigenous peoples' expressions of sovereignty and struggles for self-determination

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance tribal belonging and that peculiar status hasAn award winning author investigates the entangled history of her Jewish ancestors' land in South Dakota and the Lakota, who were forced off that land by the United States government. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant familys origins. Her great great grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century,