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Our History is the Future with Nick Estes

February 28, 2020 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Join us as we delve into the latest chapter in the centuries-long struggle for Indigenous liberation. In this lecture, Nick Estes will discuss his latest work Our History is the 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. 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.
Dr. Nick Estes is an enrolled member of the Lower Brulé Sioux, an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and a co-founder of The Red Nation. Estes is the author of Our History is the Future: #NoDAPL, Standing Rock, and the Long Traditions of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019), which places into historical context the indigenous-led movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline.
For information, contact Dr. Timothy Yamamura Timothy.Yamamura@nau.edu

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February 28, 2020
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5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Northern Arizona University Liberal Arts Room 120
700 S. Humphreys, Bldg 18
Flagstaff, AZ United States
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