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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.

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Listening to this book helped me learn more about the history of Turtle Island from the perspective of one of its rightful landowners, a history that is both heartbreaking and optimistic. The optimism comes through in Estes’s account of Indigenous-led activist and advocacy movements through the 20th century to the present. There is a vision for a just and positive future that Estes hints at, that could be achieved if settler colonial societies embraced Land Justice and recognised the Indigenous folk of a particular area as the Rightful Owners of that country, our hosts, who settlers need to give vastly more respect and gratitude to, along with practical support of Land Justice.

Understanding the past will help us move forwards to a better future

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