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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
Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
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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.

©2019 Nick Estes (P)2019 Tantor Americas Anthropology Freedom & Security Political Science Politics & Government Social Sciences State & Local United States Human Rights Latin American Social justice Socialism Middle East Africa Capitalism

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