Extraction, Indigenous Dispossession and State Power: Lessons from Standing Rock and Wet’suwet’en Resistance

• Main Author: Mittal, Paarth
• Format: Still Image
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Wet’suwet’en First Nations; Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; pipelines; dispossession; securitization of critical infrastructure (CI); British Columbia; Canada; First Nations
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/13240

One way settler-colonialism operates in North America is through the extraction of resource wealth, facilitated by the dispossession of Indigenous lands. When Indigenous-led resistance to land- and water-killing projects threatens extraction, settler state and corporate institutions use security mec...