The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten War

The Free and the Dead: The Untold Story of the Black Seminole Chief, the Indigenous Rebel, and America's Forgotten WarThe page turning and revelatory true story of America's disastrous 1835 attack on the Seminoles in pre statehood Florida, and the two men a Black American and a renowned Indigenous warrior who fought back for their homes and freedom. From 1817 to 1858, a series of conflicts known as the Seminole Wars took place between the United States and the tribes of Florida as they battled for the land. Within this unconquered territory, formerly enslaved mothers

and wholeness that are stitched with painstaking care

Travel through a garden's seasons toward healing

From the newly formed Parents Against Revisionist Theater to anonymous threats

like the dazzling glowworm caves in New Zealand

of a place in nature

Through intimate and vulnerable memoir

and of life itself

Vested Interests reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States

readers learn about the life cycle of wild salmon

award-winning artist Rafael López

and speaks with an unwavering voice

This message not only succeeded in uniting the tribes but also forever changed how the Iroquois governed themselves—a blueprint for democracy that would later inspire the authors of the U