CHE Environmental Colloquium: Matt Villeneuve

Many interpretations of January 6, 2021, have portrayed it as a scheme to disrupt the presidential election by far-right agitators fueled by misinformation. This talk looks for deeper historical origins, such as conflicts between white settlers, Native people, and federal agencies over land management in the west, which led to a series of occupations in 2016 that foreshadowed how an armed seizure of federal buildings could be represented as a justified form of protest among aggrieved settlers.