Nick Estes
Nick Estes | |
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Estes in 2019 | |
| Nationality | Lower Brule Sioux Tribe |
| Occupation | Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota |
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| Known for | Indigenous organizing and history, nonfiction |
| Awards | 2019 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Nonfiction |
| Honours | 2020 Marguerite Casey Foundation's Freedom Scholar |
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| Thesis | Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation (2017) |
Nick Estes is a Sicangu American community organizer, journalist, and historian at the University of Minnesota. 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.