And So, Hello and welcome to the Albuquerque Museum. We're here today with Dr. Nick Estes and a series of

scholars who are going to be discussing themes around the exhibition,

seven generations of Red Power in New Mexico,

which is currently on view online at our museum website which is

Cab-Q.gov slash museum.

I'm going to introduce Dr Nick Estes

and then hand this panel over to him to introduce everyone else.

A citizen of the Loebe Ruhl Sioux tribe, Dr Nick Estes is an assistant professor of American

studies at the University of New Mexico. He is a assistant professor of American studies at the University of New Mexico.

He is a historian, journalist, and host of the Red Nation podcast.

He's also the founding editor of Red Media Collective which publishes books,

podcasts, and stories highlighting indigenous

intelligence in all its forms. His writing and research engaged

decolonization, indigenous histories, environmental justice, and

anti-capitalism.

And he's been featured in The Baffler, The Guardian, The Nation, High Country News, Indian Country Today, NBC News, and The Intercept.

In 2019, Estes was awarded the Lanon Literary Fellowship for Non Fiction.

He is currently a 20 2021 Freedom Scholar

with the Marguerite Casey Foundation and the Group Health Foundation.

As he's is the author of the book Our History is the Future, Standing Rock versus the Dakota

Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous resistance.

He is the co-author of two books coming out in 2021 on police abolition and

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