Covers the fascinating history of reservation land in Oklahoma, up to two very recent Supreme Court cases which had profound implications for Native rights on their own land. Nagle's alternating chapters chronicle the development of the cases and the long history of dispossession up to the present day. Her own familial connection to historical figures who negotiated with the U.S. government in the nineteenth century, as well as white people who rushed to claim land in Oklahoma when it became a state, give the book a more personal angle than one might expect on a book about sovereignty. The U.S. government's actions from decades ago still reverberate today, and she shows how the arguments employed by modern politicians grotesquely echo the racist arguments from long ago.