By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Swampy Cree Plenty Coups’ story raises a

Plenty Coups’ story raises a profound ethical question that transcends his time and challenges us all: how should one face the possibility that one’s culture might collapse

Told in eloquent layers that blend Native stories and metaphor with social and spiritual journeys

post-contact

and to study as we take our own Red Road journey to sobriety and Wellbriety in a spiritual

being a member of a Tribe requires navigating blood quantum laws and rolls that the federal government created with the intention of wiping out Native people altogether

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land Swampy Cree Plenty Coups’ story raises aA powerful work of reportage and American history that braids the story of the forced removal of Native Americans onto treaty lands in the nation's earliest days, and a small town murder in the '90s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land over 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