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One that you might like is, Our History is the Future, Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the long tradition of indigenous

resistance by Nick Estes. 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 21st 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 anti-colonial struggle would continue. In our

history is the, 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. I recently did a really incredible in-depth lengthy interview with Nick as well.

You can find it at the Dig Radio.com.

You should also really buy and read the book.

Our history is the future.

Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline

and the long history of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes.

Out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

It's often said that history is written by the victors.

Such accounts aren't just bad history, however, but terrible politics as well,

because they normalize systems of domination in the present and protect their reproduction into the future.

When people don't understand settler colonial history, for example, they come to see borders

as natural and then demonize those who cross them.

If, instead, we refuse to accept the conqueror's view as the normal one,

the wisdom of the legendary Chicano chant becomes clear.

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