Our History Is the Future

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

By: Nick Estes

Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn

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

great listen

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.

#Landback

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

Excellent read

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

Excellent review of Native resistance

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

Rules for Indigenous Radicals

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