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Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America
Maybe someday
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77/100Scholars
Author:
Nicole Eustace
Publisher:
Liveright
Date:
April 27, 2021
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, leading historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs a crime and its aftermath: on the eve of a major treaty conference between Iroquois leaders and European colonists in the distant summer of 1722, two white fur traders attacked an Indigenous hunter and left him for dead near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, this act of brutality set into motion a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America.
What The Reviewers Say
Eustace...shines a revealing spotlight.
Much of the text format is in the present tense. The author primarily describes the initial events as they occurred, as if they are happening in the moment in a blow-by-blow account.
Thoroughly detailed.
A complex tale.
