In the scramble for the Earth’s dwindling resources, Indigenous Peoples are often seen as simply in the way, obstacles to Western notions of progress. The territories that they depend upon for life are being destroyed by mining, logging, oil extraction, industrial agriculture, and the building of dams, highways, and other large-scale infrastructure projects. States – in the name of ‘development’ – carry out policies of oppression, destroying communities, lives and livelihoods.