Nick Estes and Dallas Goldtooth: Environmental, Activist, and Indigenous Energies
@ Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, IL 60208
Opening Tuesday, April 11th, from 5:30PM - 7PM
Co-presented with the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, this event is the rescheduled winter keynote of the Kaplan Humanities Institute’s 2022-2023 Dialogue, ENERGIES: A year-long conversation about energies—personal, collective, planetary—from different humanistic perspectives.
This event brings together Indigenous activist-scholars to foreground the Indigenous lands and nations on the front lines not just of the climate crisis but also of collective actions seeking different futures. As the climate crisis continues to be fueled by energy extraction and an inability on the part of nation states and corporations to divest from capitalism, we focus in on Indigenous resistance movements to protect the environment. We ask: what are the forms of activism and collective organizing that are shaping Indigenous movements for lands and waters? Where do activist energies intersect with artistic and scholarly ones? We hope this conversation reflects both on the urgency of energy crises as well on long-standing Indigenous collective energies.
Tickets are free for this event; public welcome! RSVPs are not required, but appreciated, as they help us anticipate attendance numbers.
About the Speakers
Nick Estes is Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is Assistant Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota, co-founder of The Red Nation, and author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance.
Dallas Goldtooth (Mdewakanton Dakota & Diné) is an organizer for the Indigenous Environmental Network, writer for FX’s Reservation Dogs, and a co-founder of The 1491s comedy group.
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Moderator: Doug Kiel (a citizen of the Oneida Nation) is Assistant Professor in Northwestern’s Department of History, Kaplan Humanities Institute, and Center for Native American and Indigenous Research.
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