Although the field of environmental studies has grown consistently over the past 50 years in Canada, it still remains distanced from Indigenous cultures, resulting in a lopsided and biased understanding of Indigenous knowledges. Haudenosaunee tradition configured the first treaty in North America, the Two Row Wampum, which is based on the principle of sharing land and knowledge. Honoring the original spirit and intention of the Two Row Wampum Treaty would involve duty not alliegance to whatever treaty pertains to the traditional territory environmental studies buildings now occupy. Refusal to recognize the spirit of traditional territories also indicates an unwillingness to extend this respect to include Indigenous knowledge practitioners, which further cements the apartheid practiced in environmental studies in North America. Environmental studies originated on Turtle Island with Indigenous peoples teaching settlers minobimadziwin: the good life of the bush. Lack of due acknowledgment of Indigenous cultures sustains environmental apartheid and so preserves the colonial legacy of environmental studies.