Nick Estes Explained

Nick Estes
Nationality:	Lower Brule Sioux Tribe^[1]
Thesis Title:	Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation
Thesis Year:	2017
Thesis Url:	https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/59/
Occupation:	Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota
Organization:	The Red Nation Oak Lake Writers' Society Red Media
Known For:	Indigenous organizing and history, nonfiction
Awards:	2019 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Nonfiction
Honours:	2020 Marguerite Casey Foundation's Freedom Scholar

Nick Estes is an American Lakota community organizer, journalist, and historian at the University of Minnesota.^{[2] [3] [4]} He has cofounded The Red Nation and Red Media. In 2019, he was awarded the Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for nonfiction. In 2020, he was honored as the Marguerite Casey Foundation's freedom scholar.^{[5] [6]}

Bibliography

Books

• 2019: Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, Verso
• 2019: Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. University of Minnesota Press
• 2021: Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation. PM Press^[7]

External links

• Personal website
• Twitter page
• Estes profile at The Baffler
• Estes profile at High Country News
• Estes profile for The Intercept
• Estes profile at The Guardian
• Estes profile at The Nation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nick Estes . College of Liberal Arts . September 19, 2023.
2. Web site: Nick Estes . 2023-12-17 . University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts . en.
3. Web site: Indigenous author and activist Nick Estes Event coming to Gonzaga . 2022-04-23 . The Gonzaga Bulletin . 4 February 2022 . en.
4. Web site: Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance . 2022-04-23 . Democracy Now! . en.
5. Web site: UNM professor named Marguerite Casey Foundation 2020 Freedom Scholar . 2022-04-23 . UNM Newsroom . en.
6. Web site: Dr. Nick Estes . 2022-04-23 . www.caseygrants.org.
7. Web site: Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation . PM Press.