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The Bradley Hills Book Group will meet to discuss Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans on the Road to Indian Territory by Cladio Saunt. This book is a masterful and unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands, cast as a humanitarian enterprise. “On the far end of the Trail of Tears was a promise,” wrote Justice Gorsuch in McGirt v. Oklahoma. Historian Claudio Saunt explores the origins of the promise in the 1830s, when the United States deported 80,000 indigenous Americans from their eastern homelands. The fiercely contested policy marked a turning point for both the United States and Native Peoples, and the unprecedented operation later became a model for colonial empires around the world. We will meet at Bruce Gaber's home at 5707 Northfield Rd, and Lois Britton will lead the discussion. Please rsvp so we know who will be attending.