Nick Estes is a Lakota organizer, journalist, and historian at the University of Minnesota.[1][2][3][4] He has cofounded The Red Nation and Red Media. In 2019 he was awarded the Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for nonfiction, and in 2020 he was honored as the Marguerite Casey Foundation's freedom scholar.[5][6] He is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.[7]

Nick Estes
NationalityLower Brule Sioux Tribe[8]United States
CitizenshipUnited States, United American
OccupationAssistant Professor in American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota
Organizations
  • The Red Nation
  • Oak Lake Writers' Society
  • Red Media
Known forIndigenous organizing and history, nonfiction
Awards2019 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Nonfiction
Honours2020 Marguerite Casey Foundation's Freedom Scholar
Academic background
Education
ThesisOur History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation (2017)

Bibliography

Books

  • 2019: Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance, Verso
  • 2019: Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. University of Minnesota Press
  • 2021: Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation. PM Press[9]

References

  1. ↑ "Nick Estes". University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  2. ↑ "Indigenous author and activist Nick Estes Event coming to Gonzaga". The Gonzaga Bulletin. 4 February 2022. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  3. ↑ "Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  4. ↑ Nick Estes reporting live from the Day of Decolonization in La Paz, retrieved 2022-04-23
  5. ↑ "UNM professor named Marguerite Casey Foundation 2020 Freedom Scholar". UNM Newsroom. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  6. ↑ "Dr. Nick Estes". www.caseygrants.org. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
  7. ↑ "Building a Sustainable Socialist Movement in 2023". Twin Cities DSA. Retrieved 2022-06-03.
  8. ↑ "Nick Estes". College of Liberal Arts. Retrieved September 19, 2023.
  9. ↑ "Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation".
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