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by Nick Estes (Author)
Awards: One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022.
PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America, 2020.
One Book One Tribe Book Award, First Nations Development Institute, 2020.
Finalist, Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize, 2019.
Shortlist, Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, 2019.
Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools.
Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a personal story, and a manifesto. Now available in paperback on the fifth anniversary of its original publication, Our History Is the Future features a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising indigenous campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world.
Author Biography
Nick Estes is an enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe and is an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota. He is an award-winning historian and journalist. Estes co-hosts the Red Nation podcast and is the lead editor of Red Media, an Indigenous-run media organization that publishes books, videos, and podcasts. He is also a member of the Oceti Sakowin Writers Society, a network of Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota writers committed to defend and advance Oceti Sakowin sovereignty, cultures, and histories. He is Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities from the Council of Graduate Schools.
