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

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. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial 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.

• As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas)
• Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Indigenous Americas)
• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
• Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of Oil
• The Politics of Dependency: US Reliance on Mexican Oil and Farm Labor
• A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None (Forerunners: Ideas First)
• from Sand Creek (Sun Tracks)
• Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods
• The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
• From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation