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Nick Estes: Our History Is The Future (2019, Verso) 5 stars

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially …

I know one quote from the author and it is why I want to read his book: "Indigenous people are post-apocalyptic. In some cases, we have undergone several apocalypses. For my community alone, it was the destruction of the buffalo herds, the destruction of our animal relatives on the land, the destruction of our animal nations in the nineteenth century, of our river homelands in the twentieth century. I don’t want to universalize that experience; it was very unique to us as nations. But if there is something you can learn from Indigenous people, it’s what it’s like to live in a post-apocalyptic society."