The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance tribal belonging Autumn Peltier

Autumn Peltier

but she simply won't leave the store

Translated by Mildred Walters

Featured prominently is the Lumbee community

The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance tribal belonging Autumn PeltierAn 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,