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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Leanne's books are regularly used in courses across Canada and the United States including Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back, The Gift Is in the Making, Lighting the Eighth Fire (editor), This Is An Honour Song (editor with Kiera Ladner) and The Winter We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement (Kino-nda-niimi editorial collective). Her paper "Land As Pedagogy" was awarded the Most thought-provoking 2014 article in Native American and Indigenous Studies. Her latest book, As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance is being published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2017. As a writer, Leanne was named the inaugural RBC Charles Taylor Emerging writer by Thomas King. She has published extensive fiction and poetry in both book and magazine form. Her second book of short stories and poetry, This Accident of Being Lost is a follow up to the acclaimed Islands of Decolonial Love and was published by the House of Anansi Press in Spring 2017. Leanne is Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and a member of Alderville First Nation.

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A Short History of the Blockade

A Short History of the Blockade

Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
introduction by Jordan Abel
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : indigenous studies, canadian, native american
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Dancing On Our Turtle's Back

Dancing On Our Turtle's Back

Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:eBook
tagged : customs & traditions, native american studies, essays
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Islands of Decolonial Love

Islands of Decolonial Love

by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:eBook
also available: Audiobook
tagged : native american & aboriginal, contemporary women, literary, indigenous studies, cultural heritage, short stories (single author)
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Noopiming

Noopiming

The Cure for White Ladies
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
tagged : native american & aboriginal, literary, visionary & metaphysical
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The Gift Is in the Making

The Gift Is in the Making

Anishinaabeg Stories
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:eBook
tagged : aboriginal & indigenous, values & virtues, short stories, general (see also headings under social themes)
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This Accident of Being Lost

This Accident of Being Lost

Songs and Stories
by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:eBook
also available: Audiobook
tagged : short stories (single author), native american & aboriginal, literary
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Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

Keetsahnak / Our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Sisters

edited by Kim Anderson; Maria Campbell; Christi Belcourt
contributions by Darlene R. Okemaysim-Sicotte; Sarah Hunt; Michelle Good; Susan Gingell; Rita Bouvier; Tracy Bear; Jo-Anne Lawless; Debra Leo; Kelsey T. Leonard; Ann-Marie Livingston; Brenda Macdougall; Sylvia Maracle; Tara Kappo; Beverly Jacobs; Jenell Navarro; Pahan Pte San Win; Waaseyaa’sin Christine Sy; Laura Harjo; Lyla Kinoshameg; Maya Ode’amik Chacaby; Robyn Bourgeois; Stella August; Helen Knott; Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group; Sandra Lamouche; Madeleine Kétéskwew Dion Stout; Beatrice Starr; Leanne Betasamosake Simpson; Kimberly Robertson; Ramona Reece; Tanya Kappo; Robert Alexander Innes & Alex Wilson
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : violence in society, women's studies, indigenous studies
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Luminous Ink

Luminous Ink

Writers on Writing in Canada
edited by Tessa McWatt; Dionne Brand; Rabindranath Maharaj
contributions by Nicole Brossard; Madeleine Thien; Lawrence Hill; Nino Ricci; Heather O'Neill; Eden Robinson; Rawi Hage; Lisa Moore; Rita Wong; Hiromi Goto; George Elliott Clarke; Judith Thompson; Michael Helm; David Chariandy; Richard Van Camp; Marie-Hélène Poitras; Stephen Henighan; Greg Hollingshead; Michael Ondaatje; Lee Maracle; Camilla Gibb; Sheila Fischman; Pascale Quiviger; M.G. Vassanji; Margaret Atwood & Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:eBook
also available: Paperback
tagged : canadian
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Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg

Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg

This is our Territory
by Doug Williams
edited by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
edition:Paperback
tagged : indigenous studies, native american
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