'Our History is the Future' explores lessons from Indigenous resistance for today's water crises
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The cover of "Our History is the Future" and author Nick Estes. (Courtesy)
Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with historian, author and Indigenous activist Nick Estes about his 2019 book “Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance,” which just was released in a new edition. In the book, Estes tells stories of past Indigenous acts of resistance and how that resistance has lessons for the growing global water crisis.
Book excerpt: ‘Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance’
By Nick Estes
Reprinted with permission of the publisher Haymarket Books. Copyright Nick Estes. All rights reserved.
This article was originally published on WBUR.org.