#nickestes — Public Fediverse posts

"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

@MusiqueNow

#NickEstes on the new Hulu #documentary on #AnnaMaeAquash

https://youtu.be/Tzq0QnzZTVU
#LeonardPeltier #FreeLeonardPeltier

#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

#PrayerMarch #Resistance #OurHistoryIstheFuture #IndigenousResistance #Activism #Capitalism #CapitalismMustDie #CorporateColonialism #Colonialism #ManifestDestiny #DoctrineOfDiscovery

@DoomsdaysCW

"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

#RedNation
#NickEstes on the liberation of 🇵🇸 #Palestine: "Our struggles are naturally linked"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YsjbI1Gszw

#EndTheOccupation #TurtleIsland #indigenous #FirstNations