The Cost of Free Land

10.13.23 – At the turn of the 20th century, Rebecca Clarren’s ancestors fled antisemitism in Russia to start new lives in America, where they became homesteaders on lands the U.S. government stole from the Lakota people. In her new book, “The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance,” Clarren offers an intimate look at how her family benefitted from that stolen land and explores acts of reconciliation and repatriation that are embedded in family and culture. 

Correspondent: Laura Paskus 

Guest: Rebecca Clarren, author, “The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance”   

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My Mythic American Inheritance – TIME