This is Democracy Now, our holiday special.

The first Thanksgiving story is, begins with the Pequot Massacre by members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony,

which really marks sort of, in my opinion, marks sort of the mythology of the United States as a settler colonial country founded on sort of genocide to create ironically peace.

Our history is the future. As the nation marks Thanksgiving, we speak to the indigenous scholar

and activist Nick Estes on settler colonialism and continuing indigenous resistance.

Then to the prize-winning author and journalist Tanahasi Coates about his new book, The Message,

based in part on a trip he took last year to the occupied West Bank and Israel.

The occupied territories are segregated.

The jurors segregate it.

It's not, you know, hard to understand.

There are different signs for where different people can go.

They're different license plates, forbidding different people from going different places.

Now, what the authorities will tell you is that this is a security measure.

But if you go back to the history of Jim Crow in this country,

they would tell you the exact same thing. All that and more coming up.

This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the war and peace report. I'm Amy Goodman. In this special

broadcast, we begin the show with the

indigenous scholar and activist Nick Estes. He's co-founder of the Indigenous Resistance Group,

the Red Nation, and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. His books include Our History

as the Future, which tells the history of indigenous resistance over two centuries,

offering a roadmap for collective liberation and a guide to fighting life-threatening climate change.

SD centers this history in the historic fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline at Standing Rock.

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