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Leanne Simpson

Leanne Simpson is a researcher, writer, and educator of Mississauga and Scottish ancestry. She is a member of the gidigaa bzhiw dodem and a citizen of the Nishnaabeg nation. Leanne holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is the past director of Indigenous Environmental Studies at Trent University. Her research interests include Indigenist theory and methodology, Indigenous political cultures and traditional governance, Nishnaabeg women, Indigenous Knowledge, and Indigenous philosophies on land and the environment. Leanne currently teaches at the Centre for World Indigenous Knowledgeat Athabasca University and has previously taught at Trent University, the University of Victoria, the University of Manitoba, and Tampere University in Finland.

Books by Leanne Simpson

Islands of Decolonial Love

by (author) Leanne Simpson

The Gift Is in the Making

Anishinaabeg Stories

by (author) Leanne Simpson

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back

Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

by (author) Leanne Simpson

This is an Honour Song

Twenty Years Since the Blockades

edited by Leanne Simpson & Kiera Ladner

Dishonour of the Crown

The Ontario Resource Regime in the Valley of the Kiji Sibi

by (author) Paula Sherman
introduction by Leanne Simpson

Lighting the Eighth Fire

The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations

edited by Leanne Simpson
introduction by Sumac Smokii