Rebecca Clarren’s The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance is perhaps the single best articulation of a puzzle so many Americans and Canadians are now trying to solve: how do I come to terms with the broadly horrifying repercussions on Indigenous peoples of my ancestors’ decisions to move and thrive here while keeping my fidelity to those ancestors whom I love and whose circumstances and visions for the future shaped and continue to mark my very existence? This is a not an easy question to ask. It’s an even more difficult one to answer. Clarren asks Read more