Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) isAssistant Professor of American Studiesat the University of New Mexico. He is the author ofOur History is the Future:Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance(2019).

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