Environment destruction was and remains a key tool in the belt of settler colonialism, not a side-effect or afterthought.
Settlement requires undermining Indigenous relationships to the land itself, which in turn means brutally disrupting the ecology of that land to the point that no relationships can be maintained with it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/482349/
'Kill Every Buffalo You Can! Every Buffalo Dead Is an Indian Gone'

The American bison is the new U.S. national mammal, but its slaughter was once seen as a way to starve Native Americans into submission.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/482349/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-salmon-vanish-in-the-dry-pacific-northwest-so-does-native-heritage/2015/07/30/2ae9f7a6-2f14-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html
As salmon vanish in the dry Pacific Northwest, so does Native heritage

Human development has lowered salmon populations for years, but drought could be the final blow.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/as-salmon-vanish-in-the-dry-pacific-northwest-so-does-native-heritage/2015/07/30/2ae9f7a6-2f14-11e5-8f36-18d1d501920d_story.html
“More than half of the species in local 'assemblages' -- sets of co-existing species -- of medium and large mammals living in the Neotropics of Meso and South America have died out since the region was first colonised by Europeans in the 1500s.” https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200915090108.htm
Study reveals impact of centuries of human activity in American tropics

The devastating effects of human activity on wildlife in the American tropics over the last 500 years are revealed. More than half of the species in local 'assemblages' - sets of co-existing species...

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200915090108.htm
https://www.google.com/amp/s/timeline.com/amp/p/5b7b68bd9064
The first American settlers cut down millions of trees to deliberately engineer climate change

Long term, it worked, but not how they intended

https://www.google.com/amp/s/timeline.com/amp/p/5b7b68bd9064
“Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples:
A Synthesis of Current Impacts and Experiences” read here:
https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr944.pdf
“The impact of climate change on tribal communities in the US: displacement, relocation, and human rights” read here:

http://wordpress.ei.columbia.edu/climate-adaptation/files/2017/10/Maldonado-et-al-2011-Tribal-resettlement-US_ClimaticChange.pdf
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