, the Native Lives Matter movement has largely been made invisible in relation to the former. Moreover, when Native Lives Matter is read through the lens of the BLM movement, it ignores the fact that the threat of death faced by Indigenous Peoples is not the same as that for blacks. Each plays a particular role in an ongoing settler project for which the lives, bodies and lands of Indigenous Peoples are in fact 'ground zero'. Here, the gains of blacks with regard to freedom and sovereignty are in many ways antithetical to Indigenous People's need for recognition and territorial sovereignty. The grounding of BLM in a kind of black vitalism goes well beyond labour and civil rights organizing, and beyond the failure to affirm and secure black life together with Indigenous life and