This book might matter more to people who understand what its intervention is in the first place- that the Mississippi Choctaw "Miracle" is not in fact a miracle at all, but rather was in line directly with Choctaw political resistance over the course of over a century. To someone completely unfamiliar with the primary narrative in the first place, it was interesting but maybe not as groundbreaking as it could have been? I also thought that her explorations and theorizing of these situations could be much more useful than it stands, but it wasn't a terrible book.