Kyle Whyte — Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice

10 published claims from this book.

• A society’s resilience lies in self-determined capacity to adapt to change
• Allies’ narrow environmental framing preserves the land structures causing injustice
• Chief Ayeeta-pepe-tung conceived himself as made of the land
• Consent, trust, diplomacy and redundancy make interdependence able to achieve outcomes
• Ecological relationships can remain continuous through constant change
• Interference with other beings’ responsibilities constitutes environmental injustice
• Overlaid settler landscapes make settlers unable to perceive Indigenous presence.
• Seasonal rounds are a form of governance coordinating a society’s institutions
• Settler colonialism is ecological domination that rebuilds Indigenous homelands into settler ecologies.
• Settler violence and dispossession are ecological harms when measured by relational resilience