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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023 "Sharply insightful . . . A monumental piece of work." — The Boston Globe 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 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, s

Who reads The Cost of Free Land : Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance?

Author

Rebecca Clarren

Publisher

Viking Books, Penguin Random House

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593655078

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Updated

2026-03-24