As We Have Always Done

Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance

Bibliographic Data

ID6570838
AuthorsLeanne Betasamosake Simpson, Leanne Simpson
Year2017
Pages312
Publication date2017-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed byAs we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance, Brooke A Ackerly, 2022
VenueAs We Have Always Done (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherUniversity of Minnesota Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5749/j.ctt1pwt77c
ISBN9781452956008
Open LibraryOL26938606M
LanguageEN
Citations received975

Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around refusing the dispossession of Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that the resistance's goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation."--Dust jacket

Government relations · Nishnawbe-Aski Nation · Ojibwa Indians · Politics and government · Activism · canada · Discrimination & Race Relations · Ethnic Studies · First Nations · History · Indians of North America · Indigenous political philosophy · Indigenous self determination · Native American Studies · Ojibwa · Political Ideologies · Political science · politics and government · Radicalism · Social Science · united states