Introduction: My Radical Resurgent Present
1. Nishnaabeg Brilliance as Radical Resurgence Theory
2. Kwe as Resurgent Method
3. The Attempted Dispossession of Kwe
4. Nishnaabeg Internationalism
5. Nishnaabeg Anticapitalism
6. Endlessly Creating Our Indigenous Selves
7. The Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples’ Bodies
8. Indigenous Queer Normativity
9. Land as Pedagogy
10. “I See Your Light”: Reciprocal Recognition and Generative Refusal
11. Embodied Resurgent Practice and Coded Disruption
12. Constellations of Coresistance
Conclusion: Toward Radical Resurgent Struggle
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a writer, activist, faculty member at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, and a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University. She is author of several books, including Dancing on Our Turtle's Back, The Gift Is in the Making, Islands of Decolonial Love, and This Accident of Being Lost. She is Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba, and is a member of Alderville First Nation.
"This is an astonishing work of Indigenous intellectualism and
activism—by far the most provocative, defiant, visionary, and
generous of Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's impressive corpus to
date."—Daniel Heath Justice (Cherokee Nation), University of
British Columbia"I have learned more about this battered world from
reading Leanne Betasamosake Simpson than from almost any writer
alive today. A dazzlingly original thinker and an irresistible
stylist, Simpson has gifted us with a field guide not to mere
political resistance but to deep and holistic transformation. It
arrives at the perfect time."—Naomi Klein, author of The Shock
Doctrine and This Changes Everything"A remarkable achievement that
illuminates what is possible when we engage in the revolutionary
act of indigenous self-love, As We Have Always Done asks the simple
question, ‘What if no one sided with colonialism?’ The many
possible answers to that question are reflected in Leanne
Betasamosake Simpson’s beautifully written book in which she kindly
challenges indigenous people to reclaim their lives and bodies from
the settler colonial state."—Sarah Deer (Muscogee [Creek] Nation),
author of The Beginning and End of Rape"Incisive. Unmitigated.
Inspiring. Simpson gives no quarter to colonialism. No quarter to a
nasty Western narrative. She provides a pure, Indigenous lens—a
lens that the white man tried to kill and bury. This book is a
reminder that they failed in that rotten endeavor. It belongs on
every Canadian bookshelf. On every American coffee table. Simpson's
words are an affirmation of Indigenous resilience and
resolve."—Simon Moya-Smith (Lakota and Chicano), culture editor at
Indian Country Media Network
"Leanne Betasamosake Simpson confronts colonialism from the
perspective of Indigenous nationhood, but goes beyond arguing for
changes in politics, writing in a way that enacts changes in our
thinking about politics."—Indian Country Today "While her
intended audience is other Indigenous peoples, I think
non-Indigenous Canadians will find it inspiring as they take up her
challenge of decolonization."—Watershed Sentinel "As We Have
Always Done is an in-depth look into Indigenous resistance and what
is possible when that resistance embraces Indigenous culture. It
gives us a glimmer of hope. Hope that there is another way to live.
That we can forge relationships, be with each other, and live for
much more than what neo-liberal capitalism tells us life is
about."—The Collective "This book will not only offer the
Indigenous community much courage, but it will also open the eyes
of many non-Indigenous people. We have here not just a description
of a state of affairs, but also a practical guide. A very
important, successful publication."—Amerindian Research "The
book is essential for anyone studying any aspect of Indigenous
decolonization, politics, law, and settler colonialism, and signals
a vital shift away from current neoliberal discussions and policies
of indigenization and reconciliation in order to rebuild and
recover indigenous nationhoods."—Transmotion "Simpson
reminds us to be present, accept our battle scars and confusion,
and move forward to our most beautiful. Love is present throughout
her work. Her words convey compassion for our grief, our mistakes,
our self-hatred, and our misdeeds, as well as an understanding of
what it is to be Indigenous, to be Anishinaabeg."—Tribal College
Journal "Simpson writes about women who are skilled at
hunting, fishing and medicine, women who hold political influence
and live public lives, women who enjoy body sovereignty and sexual
relationships beyond the confines of heterosexual monogamy; about
people who do not fit the ‘colonial gender binary’ of male and
female (123), who experience and express gender and sexual
variance; about children who are separated from their communities
and placed in residential schools, where they are prevented from
speaking their own languages and learning about their own cultures.
"—Wasafiri "As We Have Always Done is a profound
intellectual achievement, a roadmap out of colonialism that should
be required reading for everyone. Beautifully written and
unapologetically Indigenous, the book is a love letter to the joy
and resilience of Native people, and their enduring strength in the
face of white settler supremacy."—The Mantle "As We Have
Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance is both
an exceptional critical achievement and a joy to read."—Oxford
University Press Journals "As We Have Always Done is a
stunning accomplishment that will no doubt inform Native political
thought for years to come."—American Indian Quarterly "A
radical book that takes its Indigenous audience seriously."—Women’s
Studies Quarterly "As We Have Always Done is grounded in its
own critical embodied research, writing outside of the framework of
academics and institutions. Yet still, her words and the indigenous
lessons within them are developed in a format that feels familiar,
like the empirical scientific system."—Nature Book Guide
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