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| Introducing “Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s” | 30 Jun 2023 | 00:34:58 | |
Episode 1: The Police Officer and the Priest: One night back in the late 1970s, an officer in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police pulled over a suspected drunk driver. When he walked up to the vehicle, he came face-to-face with a ghost from his past: a residential school priest. That officer was journalist Connie Walker’s late father. What happened that night on the side of the road compelled her to return home to Saskatchewan nearly 40 years later to try to investigate a secret in her own family. What she uncovers is a much bigger story. Subscribe to Stolen to hear more episodes, wherever you get your podcasts. | |||
| 9. Update: Supreme Court Decision | 23 Jun 2023 | 00:43:19 | |
Last week the Supreme Court made an historic ruling upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act. Rebecca Nagle takes us inside the courtroom to break down the decision, how we got here, and what it all means. | |||
| This Land, season 2 (coming August 23rd) | 16 Aug 2021 | 00:02:36 | |
ALM – as referred to in court documents – is a Navajo and Cherokee toddler. When he was a baby, a white couple from the suburbs of Dallas wanted to adopt him, but a federal law said they couldn’t. So they sued. Today, the lawsuit doesn’t just impact the future of one child, or even the future of one law. It threatens the entire legal structure defending Native American rights. In season 2 of This Land, host Rebecca Nagle investigates how the far right is using Native children to quietly dismantle American Indian tribes. Tune in beginning August 23rd.
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| 10. The Ruling | 16 Jul 2020 | 00:34:41 | |
The Supreme Court has ruled, delivering a historic decision on the reservation status of Eastern Oklahoma. Rebecca Nagle talks to the lawyer who argued the case at the High Court, Native law professors, scholars, and journalists to break down the significance of this decision and share what it means to the future of Muscogee (Creek) Nation and all Five Tribes. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 9. Supreme Court Update | 09 Jul 2020 | 00:01:58 | |
Today, the Supreme Court made a historic ruling on the reservation status of Eastern Oklahoma. Rebecca Nagle is here to break down the decision, talk through the implications, and hey, celebrate a little. Because this win -- it’s huge. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 8. The Next Battleground | 22 Jul 2019 | 00:34:42 | |
A murder case sparked an investigation into the treaty rights of five tribes. But another case -- a simple case about an adoption -- could actually dismantle America's tribes as we know them. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 7. Still Bleeding | 15 Jul 2019 | 00:30:47 | |
Tribes are asking that the Supreme Court keep the promises that it made to them, because what's lost when those promises are broken is much more than just land. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 6. The Postponement | 08 Jul 2019 | 00:25:27 | |
The Supreme Court punted a decision on Carpenter v. Murphy to the next term. What does this mean for the tribes? For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 5. The Land Grab | 01 Jul 2019 | 00:31:23 | |
The geography of this country was reshaped in the late 1800s and depending on who tells it, it's either a story of good intentions...or one of outright theft.
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| Update: Surprise announcement from SCOTUS | 28 Jun 2019 | 00:02:11 | |
In a surprise twist, the Supreme Court announced that Carpenter v. Murphy will not be decided this term.
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| 4. The Treaty | 24 Jun 2019 | 00:32:41 | |
A Cherokee leader is murdered in 1839 for signing a treaty with the United States, but the promise he died for was broken. Learn more: thislandpodcast.com
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| 8. The Heart Of It | 04 Oct 2021 | 00:32:29 | |
While we wait to see whether the Supreme Court takes the case, we attend a ceremony run by a program that helps Native adoptees reconnect with their tribes. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 3. The Opposition | 17 Jun 2019 | 00:26:16 | |
There are some very powerful groups set against Muscogee (Creek) Nation. Who are they? What's their motivation? And what arguments are they using to win their case in Court? Learn more: thislandpodcast.com For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 2. The Tribe | 10 Jun 2019 | 00:30:29 | |
Muscogee (Creek) Nation's reservation spans 11 counties across Eastern Oklahoma. This land is now at stake, and the tribe’s legal team headed to D.C. to make its case in front of the Supreme Court. Learn more: thislandpodcast.com For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/this land.
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| 1. The Case | 03 Jun 2019 | 00:24:23 | |
The Supreme Court is about to make a decision that will determine the future of five tribes and nearly half the land in Oklahoma, and it all starts with a murder on the side of the road in 1999. Learn more: thislandpodcast.com For a transcript of this episode, please go to: thislandpodcast.com
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| This Land (coming June 3rd) | 21 May 2019 | 00:02:26 | |
An 1839 assassination of a Cherokee leader. A 1999 small town murder. Two crimes collide in a Supreme Court case that will decide the fate of one man and nearly half of the land in Oklahoma. Hosted by Rebecca Nagle, Oklahoma journalist and citizen of Cherokee Nation, This Land traces how a cut and dry homicide opened up an investigation into the treaty rights of five Native American tribes. Tune in, beginning June 3rd to Crooked Media's 8-episode series to find out how this unique case could result in the largest restoration of tribal land in U.S. history.
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| 7. Before The Court | 27 Sep 2021 | 00:36:03 | |
As the case heads to the Fifth Circuit - the last stop before the Supreme Court - we go inside the courtroom to hear the arguments and the decision. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 6. Trojan Horse | 20 Sep 2021 | 00:34:19 | |
We know which law firms and think tanks are bringing these lawsuits, but no one has been able to figure out who’s funding them—or why—until now. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 5. Pro Bono | 13 Sep 2021 | 00:31:14 | |
The fight against the Indian Child Welfare Act is much bigger than a few custody cases, or even the entire adoption industry. We follow the money, and our investigation leads us to a powerful group of corporate lawyers and one of the biggest law firms in the country. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 4. Supply And Demand | 06 Sep 2021 | 00:35:20 | |
The private adoption industry has been fighting against the Indian Child Welfare Act the longest. We learn why by following one couple’s journey to adopt and their mixed feelings about the process. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 3. Grandma Versus The Foster Parents | 30 Aug 2021 | 00:40:09 | |
The Brackeens aren’t the only ones suing to strike down the Indian Child Welfare Act. So are Danielle and Jason Clifford, a foster couple from Minnesota. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 2. Behind The Curtain | 23 Aug 2021 | 00:46:29 | |
The Brackeens' case would have been a normal adoption dispute, but then one of the most powerful corporate law firms in the United States took it on and helped the couple launch a federal lawsuit. Show Notes
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| 1. Solomon’s Sword | 23 Aug 2021 | 00:47:14 | |
ALM – as referred to in court documents – is a Navajo and Cherokee toddler. When he was a baby, a white couple from the suburbs of Dallas wanted to adopt him, but a federal law said they couldn’t. So they sued. Show Notes:
For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland.
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| Introducing: BY THE FIRE WE CARRY (audiobook) | 03 Sep 2024 | 00:45:36 | |
BY THE FIRE WE CARRY, the new book by Rebecca Nagle, is a 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 1990s that led to a Supreme Court ruling reaffirming Native rights to that land more than 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 Forests—in the emergence of this great nation, our government set aside more land for trees than for Indigenous peoples.
In the 1830s Muscogee people were rounded up by the US military at gunpoint and forced into exile halfway across the continent. At the time, they were promised this new land would be theirs for as long as the grass grew and the waters ran. But that promise was not kept. When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee land, the new state claimed their reservation no longer existed. Over a century later, a Muscogee citizen was sentenced to death for murdering another Muscogee citizen on tribal land. His defense attorneys argued the murder occurred on the reservation of his tribe, and therefore Oklahoma didn’t have the jurisdiction to execute him. Oklahoma asserted that the reservation no longer existed. In the summer of 2020, the Supreme Court settled the dispute. Its ruling that would ultimately underpin multiple reservations covering almost half the land in Oklahoma, including Nagle’s own Cherokee Nation.
Here Rebecca Nagle recounts the generations-long fight for tribal land and sovereignty in eastern Oklahoma. By chronicling both the contemporary legal battle and historic acts of Indigenous resistance, By the Fire We Carry stands as a landmark work of American history. The story it tells exposes both the wrongs that our nation has committed and the Native-led battle for justice that has shaped our country.
Learn more: https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle | |||
| Introducing Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD | 09 Sep 2024 | 00:44:44 | |
The police tell us they are here to protect us. But what if their original purpose was something else altogether? Peabody Award-winning host Chenjerai Kumanyika takes listeners on a journey to uncover the hidden history of the largest police force in the world – from its roots in slavery, to rival police gangs battling across the city, to everyday people who resisted every step of the way. As our society debates where policing is going, Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD explores where the police came from. From Wondery, Crooked Media and PushBlack. Follow Empire City wherever you get your podcasts and listen to the second episode, available now. You can listen ad-free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. | |||