This event is a discussion led by Dr. Jamie Sullivan about Our History is the Future by Nick Estes. Dr. Estes will NOT be present for this event.

Copies of the 2022 One Book South Dakota selection Our History is the Future by Nick Estes are available for checkout at Yankton Community Library. Jamie Sullivan, a South Dakota Humanities Council scholar, will lead a discussion of the book on Wednesday, October 26 at 6:30 pm. Participants will have the option of enjoying the presentation in-person at the library or virtually from the comfort of their homes. For the virtual option, you can join us at: https://meet.goto.com/617301909

 

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 twenty-first 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 anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, 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.

Nick Estes is a citizen of the Kul Wicasa Oyate (Lower Brule Sioux Tribe). He currently lives in Minneapolis, MN and works on several projects, including podcasts and publications through Red Media. This fall he joined the faculty of the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minnesota.

 

This event is made possible by a grant from the South Dakota Humanities Council.