What is the relationship between linguistic and environmental change? By exploring the ways that settler colonialism has disrupted ecologies—natural, social and linguistic—in the Ecuadorian Amazon this talk reframes the agentless process of "language endangerment" as a form of settler colonial oppression. Surprisingly, the top-down imposition of the standardized form Unified Kichwa in bilingual education programs is also experienced as a form of oppression, which is driving language change. In turn, the ways Amazonian Kichwa activists and audiences engage with community media suggest new modalities for language reclamation, which look beyond language, to include embodied practices and environmental knowledge.