Abstract: This brief article is a response. It engages with recent critiques of settler colonial studies as an intellectual endeavour. Settler colonial studies, a number of scholars have argued, is at best useless, but worse, it may actually be detrimental to Indigenous struggles. What is the use of studying settler colonialism as a specific mode of domination when this knowledge is irrelevant to the struggle against a disempowering politics of forced recognition and for Indigenous resurgence? If this is an indictment, the following notes are meant as a provisional defence.
