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But how you translate that into actual political power, well, you know, I think we're kind of having this come to God moment where it's like, we, you know, have been sold down the river so many times by these people, you know, it's like, what is that saying? Like, fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me or something like that.

You're listening to Green Dreamer, and I'm your host, Kamea Shane.

Today we are honored to welcome back Nick Estes, an enrolled member of the Lower Burlesu tribe and an assistant professor in American Indian Studies at the University of

Minnesota. We spoke with Nick a few years back for episode 328, exploring topics covered in his book, Our History is the Future, Standing Rock

versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance.

Today, we discuss moving beyond the toxic cycles of electoral politics.

I would like to just kind of dive right into the hard-hitting stuff.

I think a lot of people have this presumption that colonialism and imperialism are things of the

past and we're in this post-colonial era. But there are, of course, different forms and stages

to these things. So as you take a pulse on the plight of native communities on Turtle Island

today, not at all to flatten the diverse histories of all of the different nations, but broadly

speaking, what are some of the key elements you'd like to point out in terms of the

forms of ongoing colonization that still persist today, even if there may be masked by

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