Green Wars (in press with the University of California Press) challenges international conservation’s claims to “save” Guatemala’s Maya Forest, revealing how conservation facilitates dispossession in today’s so-called Drug War, the country’s 36-year civil war, and a longer history of 200 years of settler colonialism. Through in-depth case studies, Megan Ybarra shows how conservation works to make Q’eqchi’s into immigrants on their own land and works with national efforts to make Indigenous peoples into individual liberal citizens. Even as they participate in these processes, Green Wars reveals how Q’eqchi’s call for material decolonization through relationships of mutual recognition with Indigenous peoples and the land itself.