Settler colonialism is a structure, not an event. This means that settler colonialism is not something that happened in history. It is an ongoing and ever-changing structure that defines everything in settler states. . . . In this moment, the project of settler colonialism is defined by resource extraction and development on Indigenous lands in the name of progress. Resource extraction—like coal mining, oil drilling, pipelines, fracking, uranium and copper mining, etc.—have disproportionately negative health, cultural, and economic consequences for Indigenous people and lands. Settler
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