Nick Estes

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

Nick Estes
Estes in 2019
Nationality	Lower Brule Sioux Tribe[1]
Occupation	Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota
Organizations	The Red Nation Oak Lake Writers' Society Red Media
Known for	Indigenous organizing and history, nonfiction
Awards	2019 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Nonfiction
Honours	2020 Marguerite Casey Foundation's Freedom Scholar
Academic background
Education	University of South Dakota (BA, MA) University of New Mexico (PhD)
Thesis	Our 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^[8]