Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

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Nick Estes's 2019 Verso history of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's resistance to the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and the longer arc of Lakota / Dakota / Nakota sovereignty struggle. Combines reporting from the 2016–2017 #NoDAPL water-protector camps with deep historical narrative running from the 1851 Fort Laramie Treaty through Wounded Knee 1890, the 1973 Wounded Knee Occupation, the Black Hills, the Oahe Dam, and the contemporary pipeline-defense generation. Foundational reference for the Standing Rock / DAPL prisoner-and-water-protector record NPPC documents.