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To End Fossil Fuels, End Settler Colonialism May 14, 2021 Indigenous youth, organizers with the Dakota Access and Line 3 pipeline fights, and climate activists hold a protest against pipeline projects and to urge President Biden to Build Back Fossil Free at the Army Corps of Engineers Headquarters in Washington, on April 1, 2021. The protest included a 200-foot-long black snake, representing the threat of the Enbridge Line 3 and the Dakota Access Pipelines to Indigenous communities. Photo By Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, Inc / Getty Images Much environmental framing misses the point about capit...

on certain federal funds that tribal entities qualify for. What do you say to such proponents? UM: We cannot not desire protections. We cannot not desire entitlements that we have been authorized to receive by the federal government and state government. It is sensible to understand arguments for federal recognition in the sense that they are arguments to protect our people, our community, and our scarce entitlements that are a product of colonialism. The issue is that it is a small piece of the pie, and I’m not interested in just one piece. I’m interested in the whole pie. That pie is o...

Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, a new book by The Red Nation which connects the struggle to prevent ecological collapse to the struggles against imperialism, capitalism, and settler-colonialism, including in Palestine. As The Red Nation summarizes: The choice is decolonization or extinction. The United States owns the deadliest and most funded military power in the world. It invests more in its military than the next seven largest military powers combined. The US military also owns more international military bases than an...

Author This is an abridged excerpt of the introduction to . Photo: Rena Schild / Shutterstock.com Colonialism has deprived Indigenous people, and all people who are affected by it, of the means to develop according to our needs, principles and values. It begins with the land. We have been made “Indians” only because we have the most precious commodity to the settler states: land. Vigilante, cop and soldier often stand between us, our connections to the land and justice. “Land back” strikes fear in the heart of the settler. But as we show here, it’s the soundest environmental pol...

co-author of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, assistant professor of Native American studies and American studies at the University of New Mexico and co-founder of The Red Nation. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation. co-author of The Red Deal: Indigenous Action to Save Our Earth, an assistant professor of Indigenous politics at the University of Toronto–St. George and a Kanaka Maoli scholar and activist. This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today.Donate On Earth Day, we host an extended conversation with two of the two dozen Indigenous scholars behind the...