Ebook: Our history is the future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of Indigenous resistance

Présentation de l'éditeur : "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. 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. 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"