"Police violence is an environmental justice issue...Abolition should be a demand of environmental justice." - Nick Estes.  
  

This week we bring you an edited extract from a wide-ranging discussion between Indigenous academics Kim TallBear and Nick Estes, who locate the current uprising in the United States within a larger context of capitalism and colonialism, and a long history of resistance.  
  
Guests: Kim TallBear; Nick Estes.  
  
Links:

• Indigenous Resistance Against Oil Pipelines During a Pandemic [video]  
• The Red Nation  
• 'Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science' by Kim TallBear.  
• 'Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance' by Nick Estes.  

Earth Matters #1248 was produced by Teishan Ahearne.