![]() 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. In As We Have Always Done (2017b), a work which engages Nishnaabeg peoples long-standing commitments to resurgence, Simpson foregrounds what it means for. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. 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. 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. Although As We Have Always Done is fundamentally about the reassertion of Nishnaabeg knowledge on its own terms, rather than through the lens of Western knowledge systems, Simpson’s methodological emphasis on knowledge and discursive systems of power places the work squarely within the framework of decolonial thought. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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