38 pages 1 hour read

Nick Estes

Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2019

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Essay Topics

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Estes emphasizes the importance of unifying with other capitalist outsiders, those who exist outside the status quo of settler colonialism. In what ways have movements benefited from this unification?

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In what ways are genocide and capitalism intrinsically linked? What might a future without capitalism in the US look like?

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How might looking at human and nonhuman entities as family relations alter the course of climate change? What other pieces of Indigenous tradition and knowledge can shift the way we use and abuse land and other resources?