One Book South Dakota Common Read South Dakota Humanities Council 2022 PEN OaklandJosephine Miles Literary Award PEN America 2020 One Book One Tribe Book Award First Nations Development Institute 2020 Finalist Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 Shortlist Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize 2019 Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history a personal story and a manifesto. Now available in paperback on the fifth anniversary of its original publication Our History Is the Future features a new afterword by Nick Estes about the rising indigenous campaigns to protect our environment from extractive industries and to shape new ways of relating to one another and the world. In this awardwinning book Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance leading to the present campaigns against fossil fuel pipelines such as the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars the PickSloan dams the American Indian Movement and the campaign for Indigenous rights at the United Nations.