The History of Indigenous Resistance w/ Nick Estes
Guerrilla History
Henry
4.8 • 669 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2021
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on professor, activist, and author Nick Estes to talk to us about the long history of American indigenous resistance. The conversation is structured around Nick's brilliant book Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He's also an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, an organizer with The Red Nation, and author of the aforementioned Our History Is the Future, which is available from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2953-our-history-is-the-future. You can find The Red Nation via their website http://therednation.org/ and on twitter @The_Red_Nation. Nick can be found on twitter @nickwestes.
Breht has previously recorded a couple of episodes of Revolutionary Left Radio with Nick as well. You can find those on your podcast app of choice, or via the following links:
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/lakota-and-dakota-history
https://revolutionaryleftradio.libsyn.com/aim
Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. If you have any questions or guest/topic suggestions, email them to us at guerrillahistorypod@gmail.com.
Your hosts are immunobiologist Henry Hakamaki, Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University, and Revolutionary Left Radio's Breht O'Shea.
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| 0:00.0 | You remember Den Van Boo? |
| 0:09.0 | No! |
| 0:10.0 | The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa. |
| 0:14.0 | They didn't have anything but a rank. |
| 0:17.0 | The French had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare. |
| 0:23.0 | But they put some guerrilla action on. |
| 0:34.5 | Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present. I'm your host, |
| 0:39.7 | Henry Huckimacki, joined as always by my co-hosts, Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director |
| 0:45.4 | of the School of Religion at Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing |
| 0:49.9 | today? I'm doing well. Great to be with you, Henry. Yeah, it's always nice to be joined with you, |
| 0:54.5 | and I'll just mention briefly that we recently just interviewed Margaret Kimberly together, |
| 0:59.2 | and that was a lot of fun. So it's always fun to get together with you, Adon. And I'm also joined, |
| 1:05.0 | as always, by Brett O'Shea, the Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast. Hello, |
| 1:10.5 | Brett. How are you doing today? |
| 1:11.8 | Hello, I'm doing great. |
| 1:12.8 | I'm actually incredibly excited for this interview in general because there's so much to cover. |
| 1:19.4 | And I really enjoyed the book that it's based on as well. |
| 1:22.7 | So, yeah, I'm very excited. |
| 1:24.3 | I agree wholeheartedly with that assessment. |
| 1:26.3 | And the one thing that I'm going to regret about |
| 1:28.7 | this interview is that it's not like a, you know, a two-week-long interview where we just are talking |
| 1:33.3 | to our guests for two weeks straight about this topic because there's so much that we could cover. |
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