"The world should know what America has done. I was no more guilty than my co-defendants, and they were found not guilty by reason of self-defense, because the jury heard what was going on, and they said that should not be done to any American."

#NickEstes talks to a now free #LeonardPeltier 50 years on from the #PineRidge shootout #OTD in 1975

https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-new-yorker-interview/leonard-peltiers-story-isnt-over-yet
https://archive.ph/baicD
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #AmericanIndianMovement #LeonardPeltierFree #politicalPrisoners #USpol

Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet

Nick Estes interviews Leonard Peltier, a Native American activist whose two life sentences related to the killing of two F.B.I. agents in 1975 were commuted by President Joe Biden to home confinement.

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New Hulu Documentary Targets Leonard Peltier and Indigenous Peoples' Liberation Struggles

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#Lakota #Historian #NickEstes on #Thanksgiving, #SettlerColonialism & Continuing #IndigenousResistance

#DemocracyNow, November 28, 2024

"Lakota historian #NickEstes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. 'This history … is a continuing history of #genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,' says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe."

Watch / listen / read transcript: http://www.democracynow.org/2024/11/28/nick_estes_thanksgiving

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Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance

Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,” says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

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"The #GhostDance was not a monolithic movement, but an accumulation of prior anti-colonial experiences, sentiments, and struggles that informed #NoDAPL. Each struggle had adopted essential features of previous traditions of #Indigenous resistance, while creating new tactics and visions to address the present reality, and, consequently, projected Indigenous liberation into the future."

#NickEstes

https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/4520-the-wounded-knee-massacre-and-the-long-tradition-of-indigenous-resistance

#WoundedKnee1890 #EnCeJour

The Wounded Knee Massacre and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resista

An excerpt from Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance by Nick Estes, on the Ghost Dance as an anti-colonial movement and the Wounded Knee Massacre on December 29, 1890.   During the late 1880s—disarmed, hungry, horseless, confined to

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Nick Estes on the liberation of Palestine: "Our struggles are naturally linked"

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#indigenousresistance #waterislife #NickEstes

I wanted to share this post by Nick Estes on the two year commemoration of George Floyd's murder and appreciate how he connects this to so many struggles for justice for both the land and for the people. 🙏🏾 🌹 💖 Rest In Love Power and Strength to those we should have never lost due to this depraved US white supremacist patriarchal settler colonial empire.

#NickEstes #RedNation

https://twitter.com/nickwestes/status/1529470210494935040?s=20&t=HMfdTJhSxJj0cl4uNWGGFg

Nick Estes on Twitter

“Two years after George Floyd’s murder, a grieving rain falls in Minneapolis. Broken promises. Housing crisis. Cops still terrorize. And the community still mourns and fights. According to those who knew him, Floyd always said, “I love you.” We need that love more than ever.”

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#NickEstes speaks at rally for
#LeonardPeltier

Nick Estes speaks outside of the #Burdick #federalcourthouse in #Fargo, #ND in #solidarity with Leonard Peltier, who has been imprisoned for a crime he didn't co...

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Nick Estes speaks at rally for Leonard Peltier

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