Securing Indigenous politics: A critique of the vulnerability and adaptation approach to the human dimensions of climate change in the Canadian Arctic

► (Post)colonial and decolonizing literatures applied to vulnerability and adaptation approach. ► Consequences of framing Indigenous peoples as predominantly “local” and “traditional”. ► Rendering climate change technical and the will to improve Indigenous peoples. ► Exclusion of resource extraction and shipping as urgent human dimensions of climate change. ► Importance of engaging colonialism in climate change scholarship and policy.