HUFFPOST UNEARTHS IMPERIAL ROOTS OF CLIMATE CRISIS

CJR 

 Apocalypse Then and Now

By Julian Brave NoiseCat

In March 2019, HuffPost sent me to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation in South Dakota

But a week before I arrived… The reservation was pummeled by a blizzard... and the reservation’s creeks overflowed...

Amid the flooding, I drove all over the reservation to survey the damage, eventually arriving at Wounded Knee, site of the infamous 1890 massacre and… a mass grave of one hundred forty-six Lakota...

Here before me, in one scene, were the interlocking forces of genocide, ecological apocalypse, resistance, and repression—the imperial roots of the climate crisis and their colonial fallout.