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The cost of free land Jews, Lakota, and an American inheritance

"An 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. "A brilliantly conceived family history, one that places questions of responsibility and atonement at the center of...

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Main Author: Clarren, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Viking, [2023]
Subjects:
Jews, Russian > South Dakota > History.
Sinykin family.
Sinykin, Harry, > 1859-1945 > Family.
Immigrants > South Dakota > History.
Indigenous peoples > Relations with Jews.
Lakota Indians > Land tenure > South Dakota.
Frontier and pioneer life > South Dakota.
South Dakota > Ethnic relations > History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Note on terminology
  • Prologue
  • Beyond the pale
  • The holocaust at home
  • Jewface on the frontier
  • 'Kill the Indian...save the man'
  • Little shtetl on the prairie
  • In di shvartse berg
  • The arrow for the plow
  • A shanda
  • A triple threat
  • Oh to be a Jewish Rockefeller
  • Epilogue: an American inheritance
  • Author's note
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Resources for further research
  • Index.

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