And Oh, yeah. So for our last speaker today, Nick Estes will speak about his book, Our History is the

Future. As I mentioned, Nick's book is part of the top 10 list of Ochetti Shockewing literature

selected by the selection committee.

And the selection committee and First Nations actually agreed that they would like

our history is the future to be the book that helps

kick off the campaign and one of the reasons they chose this particular book is

for a couple of reasons as Ed and Liz had mentioned, Nick's book is an example of literature that is grounded in

intergenerational transfer of knowledge.

As we were looking through Nick's book,

what we realized is that every single writer

in our top 10 list of authors

was actually included in his index.

So he had cited all of these authors himself as he put these book together.

And so as Ed said, you know, this is very much a literary tradition where

contemporary authors are building off the work of the writers and scholars who came before them.

And so First Nations decided our history is the future would be the book to kick off the One Book campaign.

Also because it's relevant, right? The Dakota Access Pipeline is still very fresh in everybody's memory.

And we also felt like the book was accessible. As an academy mentioned in one of his interviews, he wrote the book for

native audiences, but primarily for younger native audiences.

And so the book is very

a good book to help kick off the First Nations indigenous

reading campaign.

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