University of New Mexico assistant professor Nick Estes presents his new book, which provides an overview of indigenous resistance to settler colonialism stretching back for the last 200 years, with a truth that would make even our greenest politicians flinch. "For the earth to live, capitalism must die," he writes. Though politicians now stress the need to transition to a green economy, Estes argues we'll never solve the problem unless we destroy the economic structure that created the carbon economy in the first place. The United States has largely used indigenous nations as resource colonies, he says, and they'll continue to do so until they deal with the root cause. In his examination of the #NoDAPL movement, Estes shows us how forms of indigenous resistance have worked toward that end in the past, and how they'll continue to work in the future. by Rich Smith