UPDATED: Nick Estes, Native American historian and activist, to speak at Michigan Tech March 20

Nick Estes, historian and indigenous rights activist from the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation), will speak at Michigan Tech on Tuesday, March 20. Click on poster for larger version. (Poster courtesy Indigenous Peoples' Day Campaign)

HOUGHTON -- Nick Estes, a historian and indigenous rights activist from the Oceti Sakowin (The Great Sioux Nation), will present "Resistance beyond Party Politics: From Standing Rock, to Black Lives Matter, to Palestine" at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 20, in Michigan Tech's Alumni Lounge, Memorial Union Building. He is presently an American Democracy Fellow at Harvard University.

Estes is also a co-founder of The Red Nation, a coalition of Native and non-Native activists, educators, students, and community organizers advocating Native liberation. According to their mission statement, they seek "to address the marginalization and invisibility of Native struggles within mainstream social justice organizing, and to foreground the targeted destruction and violence towards Native life and land."*

* Click here to read the full mission statement of The Red Nation.

UPDATE: Nick Estes' talk will be livestreamed. You can access the livestream here (Follow steps to launch it).