Kiliii Yuyan Photographer

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Left: Sara Hill, the Cherokee Nation's Attorney general, in front of the courtroom bench in the Cherokee Nation government building. “I tend to think about it in terms of not only preserving what was,” she says, “but the right to be a separate people with a separate destiny.”

Right: Chief David Hill of the Muscogee-Creek Nation, on the banks of the Arkansas River in Tulsa, OK. Chief Hill was at the forefront of the fight that led to the landmark McGirt v. Oklahoma decision in 2020.

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