Nick Estes

{{Short description|American journalist}}{{Infobox academic

| name = Nick Estes

| nationality = Lower Brule Sioux Tribe{{cite web | title=Nick Estes | website=College of Liberal Arts | url=https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/nestes | access-date=September 19, 2023}}

| education = {{Plainlist|

• University of South Dakota (BA, MA)
• University of New Mexico (PhD)}}

| thesis_title = Our History is the Future: Mni Wiconi and the Struggle for Native Liberation

| thesis_year = 2017

| thesis_url = https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/amst_etds/59/

| occupation = Assistant Professor in American Indian Studies at University of Minnesota

| organization = * The Red Nation

• Oak Lake Writers' Society
• Red Media

| known_for = Indigenous organizing and history, nonfiction

| awards = 2019 Lannan Literary Award Fellowship for Nonfiction

| honours = 2020 Marguerite Casey Foundation's Freedom Scholar

| image = Nick Estes.jpg

| caption = Estes in 2019

}}

Nick Estes is a Sicangu American community organizer, journalist, and historian at the University of Minnesota.{{Cite web |title=Nick Estes |url=https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/nestes |access-date=2023-12-17 |website=University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Indigenous author and activist Nick Estes Event coming to Gonzaga |url=https://www.gonzagabulletin.com/news/indigenous-author-and-activist-nick-estes-event-coming-to-gonzaga/article_f896b88e-83c1-11ec-9184-cfa0307f2a16.html |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=The Gonzaga Bulletin |date=4 February 2022 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Our History Is the Future: Lakota Historian Nick Estes on Thanksgiving & Indigenous Resistance |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2019/11/28/our_history_is_the_future_lakota |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=Democracy Now! |language=en}}{{Citation |title=Nick Estes reporting live from the Day of Decolonization in La Paz |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noAlVzOwbSw |language=en |access-date=2022-04-23}} 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.{{Cite web |title=UNM professor named Marguerite Casey Foundation 2020 Freedom Scholar |url=http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-professor-named-marguerite-casey-foundation-2020-freedom-scholar |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=UNM Newsroom |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Dr. Nick Estes |url=https://www.caseygrants.org/freedom-scholars/dr-nick-estes |access-date=2022-04-23 |website=www.caseygrants.org}}