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

How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the motion proclaiming ‘Water is life’

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing up Rock Booking in North Dakota, initially established to block construction from the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the biggest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Drinking water Protectors knew this fight for indigenous sovereignty had recently been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was eliminated, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History May be the Potential, Nick Estes traces customs of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History May be the Future reaches once a function of background, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.