• Title
    Our History is the Future
    Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance
  • Call Number
    E99.D1 E87 2019
  • Name
    Estes, Nick
  • Collection
    Reference
  • Material
    book
  • City
    Chicago
  • Published
    Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2024
  • Topic1
    Dakota Access
  • Topic2
    Environmental Protection
  • Topic3
    North Dakota
  • Topic4
    protest
  • ISBN
    9798888901045
  • Page Count
    310 p.
  • Other physical details
    chiefly text
  • Dimensions
    22 cm.
  • Language note
    English
  • Synopsis/Abstract
    "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 twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan "Mni Wiconi"--Water is Life--was about more than just a pipeline. 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 leading to the #NoDAPL movement from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan dams, the American Indian Movement, and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations. While a historian by trade, Estes also draws on observations from the encampments and from growing up as a citizen of the Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires), making Our History is the Future at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto." -- Publisher's description
  • Bibliography, etc. note
    includes bibliographical references
  • Formatted contents note
    Siege -- Origins -- War -- Flood -- Red power -- Internationalism -- Liberation