Archive of Nick Estes

Nick Estes' history of Indigenous resistance in the US and the struggle for liberation against North America’s settler colonial violence.

If Natives were to be assimilated, they would be assimilated as individuals and not as nations. In the popular imaginary, Natives disappeared into the wilderness of history, were never truly nations, and had been overpowered by a superior civilization.

Nick Estes asks what it means to be a citizen of a nation that invades your land.