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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Clarren, Rebecca, author.
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Sinykin family.
Sinykin, Harry, 1859-1945 -- Family.
Jews, Russian -- South Dakota -- History.
Immigrants -- South Dakota -- History.
Indians -- Relations with Jews.
Lakota Indians -- Land tenure -- South Dakota.
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota.
South Dakota -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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The cost of free lan...
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The cost of free land : Jews, Lakota, and an American inheritance / Rebecca Clarren.
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Clarren, Rebecca, author.
[New York] : Viking, [2023]
Subjects
Sinykin family.
Sinykin, Harry, 1859-1945 -- Family.
Jews, Russian -- South Dakota -- History.
Immigrants -- South Dakota -- History.
Indians -- Relations with Jews.
Lakota Indians -- Land tenure -- South Dakota.
Frontier and pioneer life -- South Dakota.
South Dakota -- Ethnic relations -- History.
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9780593655078 (hardcover) :
0593655079 (hardcover)
Description:
335 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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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"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 the conversation about America's political future."--the Whiting Foundation. Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family's 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, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few decades, despite tough years on a merciless prairie and multiple setbacks, the Sinykins became an American immigrant success story. What none of Clarren's ancestors ever mentioned was that their land, the foundation for much of their wealth, had been cruelly taken from the Lakota by the United States government. By the time the Sinykins moved to South Dakota, America had broken hundreds of treaties with hundreds of Indigenous nations across the continent, and the land that had once been reserved for the seven bands of the Lakota had been diminished, splintered, and handed for free, or practically free, to white settlers. In The Cost of Free Land, Clarren melds investigative reporting with personal family history to reveal the intertwined stories of her family and the Lakota, and the devastating cycle of loss of Indigenous land, culture, and resources that continues today. With deep empathy and clarity of purpose, Clarren grapples with the personal and national consequences of this legacy of violence and dispossession. What does it mean to survive oppression only to perpetuate and benefit from the oppression of others? By shining a light on the people and families tangled up in this country's difficult history, The Cost of Free Land invites readers to consider their own culpability and what, now, can be done"--Provided by publisher.
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