Book details

Publication date: February 2021
Features: Foreword/liminaire, introduction
Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
Keywords: Indigenous resistance; Blockades; Beaver dams; Nishnaabeg storytelling; Regeneration; Generative resistance; Canadian Indigenous Literature; Indigenous stories; Land defenders; Water defenders; practice of wisdom
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Indigenous Studies, Creative Writing, Creative Writing / Literary Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Creative Writing / Essays, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Studies / Indigenous Author(s), Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Studies / Indigenous Literature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Native American, LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian, Literary essays, Animal life stories, Indigenous people: government, Ontario, Indigenous resistance; Blockades; Beaver dams; Nishnaabeg storytelling; Regeneration; Generative resistance; Canadian Indigenous Literature; Indigenous stories; Land defenders; Water defenders; practice of wisdom, Literature / Indigenous Stories, Indigenous Authors, Bestseller
Publisher(s): University of Alberta Press, Canadian Literature Centre / Centre de littérature canadienne

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician, and a member of Alderville First Nation in Ontario. She is the author of six previous books. Her newest novel is Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies and her latest album is Theory of Ice. Simpson is on the faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning.

Jordan Abel. Jordan Abel is a Nisga'a writer who lives and works in Treaty 6 territory (Edmonton).

“Simpson, a celebrated Indigenous storyteller, artist, and scholar, offers four Nishnaabeg stories from the wisdom of the beaver nation and the foundational teachings of their blockades (dams) as an established practice of world-building resistance. Together, the stories are also a commentary on current issues of social media, lateral violence, binary thinking, and surveillance that house the potential to hinder the generative, relational, and reciprocal nature of Indigenous resistance.” Morgan Mowatt, University of Toronto Quarterly, August 2023 [doi: 10.3138/utq.92.3.hr.018]

Foreword / Liminaire

Introduction / Jordan Abel

One
Two
Three
Four
Final Words

Notes
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