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Rebecca Nagle
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Nagle on The Laura Flanders Show in 2014
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| Born | June 12, 1986 Joplin, Missouri, U.S.
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| Nationality | American Cherokee Nation |
| Education | Maryland Institute College of Art |
| Occupation | Pundit, writer |
| Years active | 2012–present |
| Employer | Crooked Media |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Movement | Cherokee nationalism |
| Relatives | Mary Kathryn Nagle (sister) Major Ridge (ancestor) |
Rebecca Nagle is an Native American activist, writer, public speaker. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.
Career
In 2019, Nagle hosted the podcast This Land produced by Crooked Media, which was nominated for Peabody Award in 2021. The podcast focused on the case of Carpenter v. Murphy, a pending Supreme Court case to determine the land rights of various Indigenous groups in Oklahoma.
Nagle has been critical of Massachusetts Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren's claims of Cherokee ancestry, emphasizing that "[t]ribal affiliation and kinship determine Cherokee identity — not race or biology." She has spoken out about the issue in numerous print, television, and online media outlets.
Recognition
In 2012 and 2013, Nagle was named one of Fast Company's 100 Most Creative People. Nagle was also named one of the National Center of American Indian Enterprise Development's 2016 Native American 40 Under 40. Nagle was named the 2016 Sondheim Art Prize recipient, and she was listed on the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 2015 100 List for innovators and thought leaders. Nagle won the 2020 American Mosaic Journalism Prize for work on the podcast This Land and the Washington Post article “Half the land in Oklahoma could be returned to Native Americans. It should be.”
Personal life
Nagle lives in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Her sister is the attorney and playwright Mary Kathryn Nagle. Nagle identifies as a two–spirit woman and is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. Nagle is directly descended from 19th-century Cherokee leaders Major Ridge and John Ridge, who signed the Treaty of New Echota, which caused the Trail of Tears for the Cherokee people. She uses this ancestry to highlight points in parts of her podcast, This Land.
