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“Covered in Night” Compares Colonial and Indigenous Approaches to Justice | Book of the Day

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Published March 30, 2024 at 4:00 AM CDT

In this episode, we're going back in time to 1722 to examine the different approaches to justice between Native Americans and Pennsylvania colonists in the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America by historian Nicole Eustace.

In an interview with Here & Now's Scott Tong, Eustace discusses how reparative justice has deep roots in American history.

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