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 capitalism and Indigenous sovereignty. In this era of catastrophic climate change, why is it easier for some to imagine the end of fossil fuels than settler colonialism? To imagine green economies, carbon-free wind and solar energy, and electric, bullet-train utopias but not the return of Indigenous lands? Why is it easier to imagine the end of the world—a zombie apocalypse—than the end of capitalism? It’s not an either/or scenario. Ending settler colonialism and capitalism