How Indigenous Water Protectors Paved Way for Future Activism
The Takeaway
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Many Indigenous communities live on land that is being directly impacted by global warming. And as resistance to fossil fuel production has grown in recent years, Indigenous people have been at the center of the movements to reverse this trend. On this Earth Day weekend, The Takeaway is looking at how the 2016 Standing Rock protests and water protector movement created a blueprint for ongoing environmental activism.
To learn more, we speak with Nick Estes, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, incoming American Indian Studies department professor at the University of Minnesota, and founder of The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. He's also the author, "Our History Is the Future:
Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance."