Kyle Powys Whyte

Kyle Powys Whyte is a Potawatomi philosopher and professor of environment and sustainability at the University of Michigan, and a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, who works on Indigenous environmental justice and climate policy and has served on the White House environmental justice advisory council. Is It Colonial Déjà Vu? of 2017 argues that for Indigenous peoples climate change is not a new crisis but a repetition of colonialism, which already worked by disrupting their relationships with their ecosystems, and that climate justice must address colonial power. He is the newest voice on the lists that include him.