Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance - Couverture rigide

Estes, Nick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1786636727 ISBN 13 : 9781786636720

Editeur : Verso Books, 2019

Synopsis

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming 'Water is Life'--and how it points the way to a new Indigenous future

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an organization dedicated to Native liberation.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1786636727
• ISBN 13: 9781786636720
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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