Our History Is the Future
Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
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Bill Andrew Quinn
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Nick Estes
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How two centuries of Indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming "Water is life".
In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the 21st century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anti-colonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
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- Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity)
- By: Ned Blackhawk
- Narrated by: Jason Grasl
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 36
The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting book marred by poor reading
- By Nathaniel Sterling on 03-04-24
By: Ned Blackhawk
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I'm Not Scared
- By: Niccolò Ammaniti
- Narrated by: Dennis Olsen
- Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 33
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
A widely acclaimed international best seller, I'm Not Scared combines a coming-of-age narrative with a satisfying and spine-tingling story of suspense. A sweltering heat wave hits a tiny village in Southern Italy, sending the adults to seek shelter, while their children bicycle freely throughout the countryside, playing games and getting into trouble. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous he dare not tell a soul.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unabridged but Some Passages are Omitted
- By Anonymous User on 04-06-18
By: Niccolò Ammaniti
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Martin Luther King: The Essential Box Set
- The Landmark Speeches and Sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- By: Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard, Peter Holloran, and others
- Narrated by: Keith David, Jay Gregory, Martin Luther King, and others
- Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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This definitive box set includes all the landmark speeches of the great orator and American leader Martin Luther King, Jr., from his inspirational "I Have a Dream" to his firey "Give Us the Ballot." Comprised of recordings previously included in A Call to Conscience and A Knock at Midnight, The Essential Box Set is a must-have for any home, library, or school collection.
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5 out of 5 stars
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From his own mouth
- By Tony E. on 09-07-16
By: Clayborne Carson, and others
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Atoms Never Touch
- By: Micha Cárdenas, Adrienne Maree Brown - foreword
- Narrated by: Micha Cárdenas
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3
Jumping to alternate realities sounds great, if you're in control. But what if you're not? What if you're propelled away from the people and places you love the most in the blink of an eye? And what if these involuntary journeys happen because your neurochemistry is different, and your brain works differently? Beautiful, compassionate, and resourceful as she is, this is Rea's problem. A latina trans woman and an academic, she is beloved by a tight circle of friends, who fully accept her without knowing the cause of her disappearances.
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5 out of 5 stars
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New Speculative fiction classic
- By Heather Mack on 02-26-25
By: Micha Cárdenas, and others
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The Shapeshifters
- By: Stefan Spjut
- Narrated by: Ray Chase
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 19
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Story3 out of 5 stars 19
Summer 1978. A young boy disappears without a trace from a summer cabin. His mother claims he was carried away by a giant. He is never found. Twenty-five years later, another child goes missing. This time there's a lead: a single photograph taken by Susso Myrén. Myrén has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants known as stallo, who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. Convinced that trolls are real, she follows the trail of missing children to Northern Sweden.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Slow
- By James B on 11-02-24
By: Stefan Spjut
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The Wild Places
- By: Robert Macfarlane
- Narrated by: Simon Bubb
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 95
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 82
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Are there any genuinely wild places left in Britain and Ireland? Or have we tarmacked, farmed and built ourselves out of wildness? In his vital, bewitching, inspiring classic, Robert Macfarlane sets out in search of the wildness that remains.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Magical
- By Jennifer on 01-27-22
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Becoming Kin
- An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future
- By: Patty Krawec, Nick Estes - foreword
- Narrated by: Patty Krawec
- Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 77
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast, Anishinaabe writer Patty Krawec says, but we can still honor the bonds between us. Settlers dominated and divided, but Indigenous peoples won't just send them all "home." Weaving her own story with the story of her ancestors and with the broader themes of creation, replacement, and disappearance, Krawec helps listeners see settler colonialism through the eyes of an Indigenous writer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relearning History
- By Bo Buxton on 02-05-23
By: Patty Krawec, and others
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The Siren of Sussex
- Belles of London, Book 1
- By: Mimi Matthews
- Narrated by: Vidish Athavale, Lydia Hanman
- Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 155
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 154
Evelyn Maltravers understands exactly how little she's worth on the marriage mart. As an incurable bluestocking from a family tumbling swiftly toward ruin, she knows she'll never make a match in a ballroom. Her only hope is to distinguish herself by making the biggest splash in the one sphere she excels: on horseback. In haute couture. But to truly capture London's attention she'll need a habit-maker who's not afraid to take risks with his designs - and with his heart.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Very Disappointed, not typical Mimi Matthews
- By Regina Holloway on 01-12-22
By: Mimi Matthews
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Fantasy Island
- Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico
- By: Ed Morales
- Narrated by: Sean Duffy
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 102
In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Gringo Narrattion
- By shakira julia on 02-08-21
By: Ed Morales
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An African American and Latinx History of the United States
- By: Paul Ortiz
- Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 464
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 409
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Story5 out of 5 stars 404
Spanning more than 200 years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress, and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms American history into the story of the working class organizing against imperialism.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I had to return
- By Andrew Alvarez on 05-19-20
By: Paul Ortiz
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Restoring the Kinship Worldview
- Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth
- By: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narváez PhD
- Narrated by: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narváez PhD, Sage Ryan
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 45
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Story5 out of 5 stars 38
Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Editors Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present 28 powerful excerpted passages from Indigenous leaders, including Mourning Dove, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Winona LaDuke, and Xiuhtezcatl Martinez.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Interactions between the authors and readers
- By William C McGarvey on 02-22-25
By: Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), and others
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How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
- By: Walter Rodney, Angela Y. Davis - foreword
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 578
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 491
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Story5 out of 5 stars 482
Guyanese intellectual Walter Rodney emerged as one of the leading thinkers and activists of the anticolonial revolution. In 1980, shortly after founding of the Working People's Alliance in Guyana, the 38-year-old Rodney would be assassinated. In his magnum opus, Rodney incisively argues that grasping "the great divergence" between the West and the rest can only be explained as the exploitation of the latter by the former. This meticulously researched analysis of the repercussions of European colonialism in Africa remains an indispensable study for grasping global inequality today.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Superb must read for everyone
- By Joy on 04-16-19
By: Walter Rodney, and others
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The Seed Keeper
- A Novel
- By: Diane Wilson
- Narrated by: Kyla García
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 687
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 605
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Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies they've inherited.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking American History.
- By Regina on 03-12-22
By: Diane Wilson
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee
- Native America from 1890 to the Present
- By: David Treuer
- Narrated by: Tanis Parenteau
- Length: 17 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 455
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 383
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 382
The received idea of Native American history - as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did 150 Sioux die at the hands of the US Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative.
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4 out of 5 stars
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excellent text, awful narrator
- By D. Rubinstein on 12-01-19
By: David Treuer
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Black Reconstruction in America
- By: W. E. B. Du Bois, David Levering Lewis
- Narrated by: Mirron Willis
- Length: 37 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 366
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 306
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Story5 out of 5 stars 303
This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The textbook you should have had in high school.
- By Saleh on 05-06-18
By: W. E. B. Du Bois, and others
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- Lamar Renville
- 04-05-21
great listen
I loved this book and learned a ton. a key piece of antioppresion literature, and definitely not what the history books are going to tell you. gave me a deeper sense of the oceti sakowin, the great dakota Lakota council of seven fires, and their history of anti colonial resistance.
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- Adrian Lambrinos
- 06-23-20
Excellent review of Native resistance
Estes has long been a voice for his people’s struggle against imperialism in the US against native people. This book takes a look through the lens of a long history of native resistance against the US governments campaign against The Standing Rock people from the era of colonialism, to Custer, to the #nodapl movement. Thorough and bold. Highly recommend
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- Anonymous User
- 03-02-24
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very informative, it went into detail of the history which isn't really taught in schools
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- zu
- 09-11-23
Excellent read
As a new comer to turtle island this gave me a greater understanding… should be a book studied in high school.
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- Carlton E Williams
- 06-30-19
Rules for Indigenous Radicals
This is a must read for anyone trying to be about that anti settler colonial life.
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- Stacy
- 07-23-19
Captivating..
This story gives a horrifying look into the past, the present and the future. Told with style and with the respect deserved by the people who were the subjects of this content. Well done and I would definitely recommend!
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- books285
- 08-22-19
Captivating
Estes does a great job providing context in a captivating, storytelling form. I already shared the book with family.
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- Jay Nelson
- 05-31-23
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Excellent
Why do you require a word minimum. Stop the nonsense. Seriously stop. Why? Ridiculous.
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- Levin Welch
- 09-02-20
Very important book
What a way to tell a story of Indigenous resistance! Incredible research that students of US domestic social movements/political struggle and international law and diplomacy will cite for decades to come.
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- H Potter
- 02-17-24
So much II was never concerned or thought about.
Well reaearched, organized, and presented to become a great historical document of the other side.
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