How two centuries of
Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming “Water is
life”
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.