2022 OBSD: Our History Is the Future

In 2022, readers around the state, including those participating in SDHC-funded book club programs, will read and discuss Nick Estes’ Our History Is the Future.

Estes’ book talks about timely issues in terms of protests and actions and the water protectors movement, but also puts them in a context of a couple of centuries worth of Indigenous resistance to the kinds of injustices that have been perpetrated on Native American people and their land. It ties these issues together with a focus on the Oceti Sakowin — the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota tribes of South Dakota.

Estes, who has researched the politics of water and the Missouri River for more than a decade, has received critical acclaim for his scholarly and thoughtful approach to the Standing Rock protests and other Indigenous movements.