Settler Colonialism

“Land is the prime concern of settler colonialism, contexts in which the colonizer comes to a “new” place not only to seize and exploit but to stay, making that “new” place his permanent home.”¹

"In this context, it is worth remembering that the Department of the Interior, which continues to spearhead intertwined US strategies of mineral extraction and environmental management domestically and abroad, is in charge of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which helped systematically dispossess Indigenous nations of their lands and mineral resources"²