Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving, Settler Colonialism & Continuing Indigenous Resistance
by webdev@democracynow.org (Democracy Now!) from Democracy Now! on (#6GKPS)
Lakota historian Nick Estes 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.