January 2018 Academic & Specialist University of Minnesota Press

Indigenous Americas

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Indigenous Americas

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson


Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. She makes clear that the goal of Indigenous resistance can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic, calling for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state.