'Our History is the Future' explores lessons from Indigenous resistance for today's water crises

Editor's note: This segment was rebroadcasted on Oct. 14, 2024. Find that audio here. 

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.

By Nick Estes

Reprinted with permission of the publisher Haymarket Books. Copyright Nick Estes. All rights reserved.