The US is inherently rooted in erasure of settler identities, decolonization can never happen under American policies

We return to the argument here that the liberation of Indigenous people, and all peoples will not happen through the policies of the U.S. nation-state, nor any other settler government. The U.S., like all settler colonial societies, is predicated upon Indigenous erasure. As Bacon eloquently describes, ‘the mechanisms of eco-social disruption are numerous: land is redistributed, privatized, polluted, and renamed with generally no input or consent on the part of the original inhabitants; the value of places and beings are redefined by the culture of the colonizers’ (Citation2019, 63). Cameron adds to this when she writes on the absence of a recognition of colonialism ‘in spite of the fact that the projects are carried out in communities profoundly shaped by colonization and movements toward decolonization and Inuit self-determination. Climate change itself, as a number of Indigenous leaders and scholars have made clear, is thoroughly tied to colonial practices, both historically and in the present’ (Citation2012, 104). Cameron further stresses that the current settler and governmental approach to how climate change affects humans and:

perpetuates the delimitation of Indigenous peoples to the “local,” by limiting the legibility of Indigenous geographies to the realm of the “traditional,” and by eliding the persistence of the colonial, understood not just in cultural, social, or historical terms, but also as the organization and re-organization of political-economic relations (Citation2012, 104).