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Our History Is the Future

Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

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Our History Is the Future

By: Nick Estes
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How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life".

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.

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I loved this book and learned a ton. a key piece of antioppresion literature, and definitely not what the history books are going to tell you. gave me a deeper sense of the oceti sakowin, the great dakota Lakota council of seven fires, and their history of anti colonial resistance.

great listen

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Estes has long been a voice for his people’s struggle against imperialism in the US against native people. This book takes a look through the lens of a long history of native resistance against the US governments campaign against The Standing Rock people from the era of colonialism, to Custer, to the #nodapl movement. Thorough and bold. Highly recommend

Excellent review of Native resistance

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As a new comer to turtle island this gave me a greater understanding… should be a book studied in high school.

Excellent read

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very informative, it went into detail of the history which isn't really taught in schools

#Landback

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This is a must read for anyone trying to be about that anti settler colonial life.

Rules for Indigenous Radicals

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This story gives a horrifying look into the past, the present and the future. Told with style and with the respect deserved by the people who were the subjects of this content. Well done and I would definitely recommend!

Captivating..

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Estes does a great job providing context in a captivating, storytelling form. I already shared the book with family.

Captivating

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Excellent

Why do you require a word minimum. Stop the nonsense. Seriously stop. Why? Ridiculous.

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What a way to tell a story of Indigenous resistance! Incredible research that students of US domestic social movements/political struggle and international law and diplomacy will cite for decades to come.

Very important book

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Well reaearched, organized, and presented to become a great historical document of the other side.

So much II was never concerned or thought about.

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