Videos by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Leanne Betasmosake Simpson x Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist based ... more Leanne Betasmosake Simpson x Sandra Brewster
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. The daughter of Guyanese-born parents, she is especially attuned to the experiences of people of Caribbean heritage and their ongoing relationships with back home. Sandra holds a BFA from York University and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Recent solo exhibitions include Blur at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019/20), Token | Contemporary Ongoing at A Space Gallery in Toronto, Or Gallery in Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Guelph. Brewster’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including Identity in Flux, organized by VISART, Rajko Mamuzić Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia; travelling to National Gallery of Macedonia Skoplje in Northern Macedonia; Tivat Cultural Center Gallery in Montenegro; and Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, travelled to Musée des beaux arts in Montreal, and t 10 views
"Solidification ᒪᔥᑲᐗᒋ 凝"
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson x Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像,
Solidificatio... more "Solidification ᒪᔥᑲᐗᒋ 凝"
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson x Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像,
Solidification is a video collaboration blending an immersive reading by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson from her recently released novel, "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies" (House of Anansi Press/ Canada and University of Minnesota Press, US) over a wintery soundscape of drone and vocal composed by her sister Ansley Simpson, and brought to life with visuals from Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像, an interdisciplinary collective of performance, art & technology. 17 views
Books by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
University of Alberta Press, 2021
In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi S... more In A Short History of the Blockade, award-winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaver—or in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life-giving possibilities of dams and the world-building possibilities of blockades, deepening our understanding of Indigenous resistance, as both a negation and an affirmation. Widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation, Simpson’s work breaks open the intersections between politics, story, and song, bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. A Short History of the Blockade reveals how the practice of telling stories is also a culture of listening, “a thinking through together,” and ultimately, like the dam or the blockade, an affirmation of life.
University of Minnesota Press, 2021
The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the... more The new novel from the author of As We Have Always Done, a poetic world-building journey into the power of Anishinaabe life and traditions amid colonialism
In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits—and the daily work of healing.
University of Minnesota Press, 2017
Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of f... more 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. 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.
Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. 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.
Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing... more Many promote Reconciliation as a "new" way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance.
Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state.
Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back provides a valuable new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.
House of Anansi Press, 2017
A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and w... more A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out of time and resists dominant narratives or comfortable categorization.
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love.
A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting “ARE THEY GETTING IT?”; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.
ARP Books, 2013
In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activis... more In her debut collection of short stories, Islands of Decolonial Love, renowned writer and activist Leanne Simpson vividly explores the lives of contemporary Indigenous Peoples and communities, especially those of her own Nishnaabeg nation. Found on reserves, in cities and small towns, in bars and curling rinks, canoes and community centres, doctors offices and pickup trucks, Simpson's characters confront the often heartbreaking challenge of pairing the desire to live loving and observant lives with a constant struggle to simply survive the historical and ongoing injustices of racism and colonialism. Told with voices that are rarely recorded but need to be heard, and incorporating the language and history of her people, Leanne Simpson's Islands of Decolonial Love is a profound, important, and beautiful book of fiction.
Portage and Main Press, 2013
The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Ani... more The Gift Is in the Making retells previously published Anishinaabeg stories, bringing to life Anishinaabeg values and teachings to a new generation. Readers are immersed in a world where all genders are respected, the tiniest being has influence in the world, and unconditional love binds families and communities to each other and to their homeland. Sprinkled with gentle humour and the Anishinaabe language, this collection speaks to children and adults alike, and reminds us of the timelessness of stories that touch the heart.
The Gift Is in the Making is the second title in The Debwe Series. Created in the spirit of the Anishinaabe concept debwe (to speak the truth), The Debwe Series is a collection of exceptional Aboriginal writings from across Canada.
Varia, Quebec, 2018
On parle beaucoup au Québec, comme dans le reste du Canada, de réconciliation avec les Premières ... more On parle beaucoup au Québec, comme dans le reste du Canada, de réconciliation avec les Premières Nations. Mais pour qu’un rapprochement fécond puisse avoir lieu, qu’une nouvelle ère, égalitaire et respectueuse, s’ouvre, le cadre constitutionnel canadien ne peut à lui seul en définir les règles. Toute entente devra aussi tenir compte des traditions autochtones.
C’est dans ce contexte que le livre de Leanne Simpson trouve toute sa pertinence. L’auteure s’y demande comment redonner force, consistance et valeur à un héritage politique, juridique et culturel mis à mal par le processus colonial. D’une façon aussi concrète que tonique et audacieuse, elle y explore la langue, les mythes, les coutumes et les expériences de sa culture ancestrale afin de recouvrer et révéler cette manière singulière et originale d’être au monde trop longtemps méprisée.
Si l’entreprise est inspirante pour toute communauté issue des Premières Nations, elle l’est également pour quiconque s’intéresse aux contradictions de la modernité occidentale.
Mémoire d'encrier, 2018
Traduit de l’anglais par Natasha Kanapé Fontaine et Arianne Des Rochers
Dans Cartographie de l’a... more Traduit de l’anglais par Natasha Kanapé Fontaine et Arianne Des Rochers
Dans Cartographie de l’amour décolonial, l’écrivaine et militante autochtone Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore l’existence actuelle des peuples et collectivités autochtones, en particulier celle de sa propre nation nishnaabeg. Ses personnages s’efforcent de réconcilier leur désir de vivre une vie pleine de tendresse avec le combat qu’ils livrent quotidiennement pour survivre aux injustices passées et présentes causées par le racisme et le colonialisme.
Mémoire d'encrier, 2020
Traduit de l’anglais par Natasha Kanapé Fontaine et Arianne Des Rochers
Des fragments afin de re... more Traduit de l’anglais par Natasha Kanapé Fontaine et Arianne Des Rochers
Des fragments afin de renverser les grands récits et les mythes fondateurs. Un regard neuf et puissant pour raconter autrement. L’auteure associe, dans des formes brèves et inédites, contes, musique, science-fiction, réalisme contemporain et voix poétique.
ARP Books, 2008
This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of free... more This remarkable collection of essays by leading Indigenous scholars focuses on the themes of freedom, liberation and Indigenous resurgence as they relate to the land. They analyze treaties, political culture, governance, environmental issues, economy, and radical social movements from an anti-colonial Indigenous perspective in a Canadian context. Editor Leanne Simpson (Nishnaabekwe) has solicited Indigenous writers that place Indigenous freedom as their highest political goal, while turning to the knowledge, traditions, and culture of specific Indigenous nations to achieve that goal. The authors offer frank and political analysis and commentary of the kind not normally found in mainstream books, journals, and magazines.
ARP Books, 2010
This is an Honour Song is a collection of narratives, poetry, and essays exploring the broad impa... more This is an Honour Song is a collection of narratives, poetry, and essays exploring the broad impact of the 1990 resistance at Kanehsatà:ke, otherwise known as the "Oka Crisis. " The book is written by leading Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, scholars, activists and traditional people, and is sung as an Honour Song celebrating the commitment, sacrifices and achievements of the Kanien'kehaka individuals and communities involved.
Papers by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning , 2021
COVID-19 has drastically altered the landscape of education
across Turtle Island. For Indigenous ... more COVID-19 has drastically altered the landscape of education
across Turtle Island. For Indigenous land-based educators,
whose immersive programs require that students be out on
the land together, these changes are particularly concerning.
In response to these concerns, Dechinta hosted a COVID-19
Webinar Series in the summer of 2020 to examine the risks
of moving Indigenous land-based education online and to
offer possible solutions, mitigations or alternatives to carrying
out immersive group learning in land-based education during
the pandemic. Participants agreed that the wisdom of the
land, and its centrality to Indigenous life and politics, provides
the foundation for land-based education and that online
learning cannot replace this mode of pedagogy. Participants
also discussed opportunities and barriers to queering land-based
education, the unique issues land-based educators in
the North are navigating, and the benefits of returning to the
land during a pandemic. This report is an analysis and
response to these conversations, as well as a toolkit and
resource to assist educators and students who are continuing
their land-based programming during COVID-19.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Fred Sangris, (Yellowknives Dene), YKDFN Lands Office
Kristen Tanche (Łıı́d́ lı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́), Regional Health & Wellness
Coordinator, Dehcho First Nations
Josh Barichello, (Regional Coordinator Ross River, Dechinta)
Robby Dick (Kaska Dena), Ross River, Dechinta Alumni
Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Northern Tutchone), Yukon
University
Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian Taino, past alumni, land-based
coordinator and Dechinta Board Member)
Max Liboiron (Métis/Michif), Memorial University of
Newfoundland
Madeline Whetung (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Curve Lake
First Nation), Ryerson University
Ryan Crosschild (Blackfoot - Kainai)
Kyle Shaughnessy (Dene)
Riley Kucheran (Biigtigong Nishnaabe), Ryerson University
Christina Gray (Tsimshian and Dene)
Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua (Kanaka Maoli), University of
Hawaii at Manoa
Heidi Kiiwetinepinisiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe),
University of Victoria
Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee), University of Victoria
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg,
Alderville First Nation), Dechinta
Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene), University of British
Columbia
Alex Wilson (Opaskwayak Cree), University of Saskatchewan
Doug Williams (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, Curve Lake First
Nation), Trent University
Manulani Meyer (Hawaiian), University of Hawai‘i–West
O‘ahu
Melody McKiver (Anishinaabe)
Webinars available at www.dechinta.ca
Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada, 2020
Decolonization, Indigeniety, Education & Society, 2014
A resurgence of Indigenous political cultures, governances and nation-building requires generatio... more A resurgence of Indigenous political cultures, governances and nation-building requires generations of Indigenous peoples to grow up intimately and strongly connected to our homelands, immersed in our languages and spiritualities, and embodying our traditions of agency, leadership, decision-making and diplomacy. This requires a radical break from state education systems – systems that are primarily designed to produce communities of individuals willing to uphold settler colonialism. This paper uses Nishnaabeg stories to advocate for a reclamation of land as pedagogy, both as process and context for Nishnaabeg intelligence, in order to nurture a generation of Indigenous peoples that have the skills, knowledge and values to rebuild our nation according to the word views and values of Nishnaabeg culture.
Critical Ethnic Studies, 2016
In this article, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discuss... more In this article, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer and activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson discusses the limits of justice (so long as it involves interactions with the settler state) and possibilities for Indigenous resurgence, especially through constellations of co-resistance. The article addresses recent changes in settler government in Canada, connections between settler colonialism and antiblackness, the costs of dispossession, and the significance of grounded normativity in finding pathways to freedom. The article was created through a correspondence with Unangax̂ writer Eve Tuck.
Studies in Social Justice, 2018
In this panel exchange, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Black St... more In this panel exchange, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Black Studies scholar Rinaldo Walcott speak about Idle No More (INM) and Black Lives Matter (BLM) respectively, with Yellowknives Dene scholar Glen Coulthard responding to them both. The speakers were invited to situate Indigenous and Black resistance in the post2010 global movement assemblage. Walcott and Simpson situate BLM and INM within longer histories of struggle for freedom and being, and address translocal connectivities, but notably without using the language of assemblage. Each for their own reasons rejects assemblage thinking in favour of forms of critical thought arising from histories of resistance with which they are identified: the radical Black tradition, Nissnaabeg intelligence, and Indigenous resurgence more generally. Simpson offers a compelling alternative to assemblage in the image of “constellations of co-resistance.”
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Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. The daughter of Guyanese-born parents, she is especially attuned to the experiences of people of Caribbean heritage and their ongoing relationships with back home. Sandra holds a BFA from York University and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Recent solo exhibitions include Blur at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019/20), Token | Contemporary Ongoing at A Space Gallery in Toronto, Or Gallery in Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Guelph. Brewster’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including Identity in Flux, organized by VISART, Rajko Mamuzić Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia; travelling to National Gallery of Macedonia Skoplje in Northern Macedonia; Tivat Cultural Center Gallery in Montenegro; and Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, travelled to Musée des beaux arts in Montreal, and t
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson x Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像,
Solidification is a video collaboration blending an immersive reading by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson from her recently released novel, "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies" (House of Anansi Press/ Canada and University of Minnesota Press, US) over a wintery soundscape of drone and vocal composed by her sister Ansley Simpson, and brought to life with visuals from Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像, an interdisciplinary collective of performance, art & technology.
Books by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits—and the daily work of healing.
Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. 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.
Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state.
Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back provides a valuable new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love.
A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting “ARE THEY GETTING IT?”; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.
The Gift Is in the Making is the second title in The Debwe Series. Created in the spirit of the Anishinaabe concept debwe (to speak the truth), The Debwe Series is a collection of exceptional Aboriginal writings from across Canada.
C’est dans ce contexte que le livre de Leanne Simpson trouve toute sa pertinence. L’auteure s’y demande comment redonner force, consistance et valeur à un héritage politique, juridique et culturel mis à mal par le processus colonial. D’une façon aussi concrète que tonique et audacieuse, elle y explore la langue, les mythes, les coutumes et les expériences de sa culture ancestrale afin de recouvrer et révéler cette manière singulière et originale d’être au monde trop longtemps méprisée.
Si l’entreprise est inspirante pour toute communauté issue des Premières Nations, elle l’est également pour quiconque s’intéresse aux contradictions de la modernité occidentale.
Dans Cartographie de l’amour décolonial, l’écrivaine et militante autochtone Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore l’existence actuelle des peuples et collectivités autochtones, en particulier celle de sa propre nation nishnaabeg. Ses personnages s’efforcent de réconcilier leur désir de vivre une vie pleine de tendresse avec le combat qu’ils livrent quotidiennement pour survivre aux injustices passées et présentes causées par le racisme et le colonialisme.
Des fragments afin de renverser les grands récits et les mythes fondateurs. Un regard neuf et puissant pour raconter autrement. L’auteure associe, dans des formes brèves et inédites, contes, musique, science-fiction, réalisme contemporain et voix poétique.
Papers by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
across Turtle Island. For Indigenous land-based educators,
whose immersive programs require that students be out on
the land together, these changes are particularly concerning.
In response to these concerns, Dechinta hosted a COVID-19
Webinar Series in the summer of 2020 to examine the risks
of moving Indigenous land-based education online and to
offer possible solutions, mitigations or alternatives to carrying
out immersive group learning in land-based education during
the pandemic. Participants agreed that the wisdom of the
land, and its centrality to Indigenous life and politics, provides
the foundation for land-based education and that online
learning cannot replace this mode of pedagogy. Participants
also discussed opportunities and barriers to queering land-based
education, the unique issues land-based educators in
the North are navigating, and the benefits of returning to the
land during a pandemic. This report is an analysis and
response to these conversations, as well as a toolkit and
resource to assist educators and students who are continuing
their land-based programming during COVID-19.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Fred Sangris, (Yellowknives Dene), YKDFN Lands Office
Kristen Tanche (Łıı́d́ lı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́), Regional Health & Wellness
Coordinator, Dehcho First Nations
Josh Barichello, (Regional Coordinator Ross River, Dechinta)
Robby Dick (Kaska Dena), Ross River, Dechinta Alumni
Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Northern Tutchone), Yukon
University
Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian Taino, past alumni, land-based
coordinator and Dechinta Board Member)
Max Liboiron (Métis/Michif), Memorial University of
Newfoundland
Madeline Whetung (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Curve Lake
First Nation), Ryerson University
Ryan Crosschild (Blackfoot - Kainai)
Kyle Shaughnessy (Dene)
Riley Kucheran (Biigtigong Nishnaabe), Ryerson University
Christina Gray (Tsimshian and Dene)
Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua (Kanaka Maoli), University of
Hawaii at Manoa
Heidi Kiiwetinepinisiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe),
University of Victoria
Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee), University of Victoria
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg,
Alderville First Nation), Dechinta
Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene), University of British
Columbia
Alex Wilson (Opaskwayak Cree), University of Saskatchewan
Doug Williams (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, Curve Lake First
Nation), Trent University
Manulani Meyer (Hawaiian), University of Hawai‘i–West
O‘ahu
Melody McKiver (Anishinaabe)
Webinars available at www.dechinta.ca
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. The daughter of Guyanese-born parents, she is especially attuned to the experiences of people of Caribbean heritage and their ongoing relationships with back home. Sandra holds a BFA from York University and a Masters of Visual Studies from the University of Toronto. Recent solo exhibitions include Blur at the Art Gallery of Ontario (2019/20), Token | Contemporary Ongoing at A Space Gallery in Toronto, Or Gallery in Vancouver and the Art Gallery of Guelph. Brewster’s work has been exhibited in group exhibitions including Identity in Flux, organized by VISART, Rajko Mamuzić Gallery, Novi Sad, Serbia; travelling to National Gallery of Macedonia Skoplje in Northern Macedonia; Tivat Cultural Center Gallery in Montenegro; and Here We Are Here: Black Canadian Contemporary Art, organized by the Royal Ontario Museum, travelled to Musée des beaux arts in Montreal, and t
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson x Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像,
Solidification is a video collaboration blending an immersive reading by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson from her recently released novel, "Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies" (House of Anansi Press/ Canada and University of Minnesota Press, US) over a wintery soundscape of drone and vocal composed by her sister Ansley Simpson, and brought to life with visuals from Sammy Chien of Chimerik似不像, an interdisciplinary collective of performance, art & technology.
In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson’s Noopiming braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. A bold literary act of decolonization and resistance, Noopiming offers a breaking open of the self to a world alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits—and the daily work of healing.
Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. 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.
Simpson explores philosophies and pathways of regeneration, resurgence, and a new emergence through the Nishnaabeg language, Creation Stories, walks with Elders and children, celebrations and protests, and meditations on these experiences. She stresses the importance of illuminating Indigenous intellectual traditions to transform their relationship to the Canadian state.
Challenging and original, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back provides a valuable new perspective on the struggles of Indigenous Peoples.
This Accident of Being Lost is the knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. These visionary pieces build upon Simpson's powerful use of the fragment as a tool for intervention in her critically acclaimed collection Islands of Decolonial Love.
A crow watches over a deer addicted to road salt; Lake Ontario floods Toronto to remake the world while texting “ARE THEY GETTING IT?”; lovers visit the last remaining corner of the boreal forest; three comrades guerrilla-tap maples in an upper middle-class neighbourhood; and Kwe gets her firearms license in rural Ontario. Blending elements of Nishnaabeg storytelling, science fiction, contemporary realism, and the lyric voice, This Accident of Being Lost burns with a quiet intensity, like a campfire in your backyard, challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew.
The Gift Is in the Making is the second title in The Debwe Series. Created in the spirit of the Anishinaabe concept debwe (to speak the truth), The Debwe Series is a collection of exceptional Aboriginal writings from across Canada.
C’est dans ce contexte que le livre de Leanne Simpson trouve toute sa pertinence. L’auteure s’y demande comment redonner force, consistance et valeur à un héritage politique, juridique et culturel mis à mal par le processus colonial. D’une façon aussi concrète que tonique et audacieuse, elle y explore la langue, les mythes, les coutumes et les expériences de sa culture ancestrale afin de recouvrer et révéler cette manière singulière et originale d’être au monde trop longtemps méprisée.
Si l’entreprise est inspirante pour toute communauté issue des Premières Nations, elle l’est également pour quiconque s’intéresse aux contradictions de la modernité occidentale.
Dans Cartographie de l’amour décolonial, l’écrivaine et militante autochtone Leanne Betasamosake Simpson explore l’existence actuelle des peuples et collectivités autochtones, en particulier celle de sa propre nation nishnaabeg. Ses personnages s’efforcent de réconcilier leur désir de vivre une vie pleine de tendresse avec le combat qu’ils livrent quotidiennement pour survivre aux injustices passées et présentes causées par le racisme et le colonialisme.
Des fragments afin de renverser les grands récits et les mythes fondateurs. Un regard neuf et puissant pour raconter autrement. L’auteure associe, dans des formes brèves et inédites, contes, musique, science-fiction, réalisme contemporain et voix poétique.
across Turtle Island. For Indigenous land-based educators,
whose immersive programs require that students be out on
the land together, these changes are particularly concerning.
In response to these concerns, Dechinta hosted a COVID-19
Webinar Series in the summer of 2020 to examine the risks
of moving Indigenous land-based education online and to
offer possible solutions, mitigations or alternatives to carrying
out immersive group learning in land-based education during
the pandemic. Participants agreed that the wisdom of the
land, and its centrality to Indigenous life and politics, provides
the foundation for land-based education and that online
learning cannot replace this mode of pedagogy. Participants
also discussed opportunities and barriers to queering land-based
education, the unique issues land-based educators in
the North are navigating, and the benefits of returning to the
land during a pandemic. This report is an analysis and
response to these conversations, as well as a toolkit and
resource to assist educators and students who are continuing
their land-based programming during COVID-19.
CONTRIBUTORS:
Fred Sangris, (Yellowknives Dene), YKDFN Lands Office
Kristen Tanche (Łıı́d́ lı̨ı̨ Kų́ę́), Regional Health & Wellness
Coordinator, Dehcho First Nations
Josh Barichello, (Regional Coordinator Ross River, Dechinta)
Robby Dick (Kaska Dena), Ross River, Dechinta Alumni
Lianne Marie Leda Charlie (Northern Tutchone), Yukon
University
Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian Taino, past alumni, land-based
coordinator and Dechinta Board Member)
Max Liboiron (Métis/Michif), Memorial University of
Newfoundland
Madeline Whetung (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg Curve Lake
First Nation), Ryerson University
Ryan Crosschild (Blackfoot - Kainai)
Kyle Shaughnessy (Dene)
Riley Kucheran (Biigtigong Nishnaabe), Ryerson University
Christina Gray (Tsimshian and Dene)
Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua (Kanaka Maoli), University of
Hawaii at Manoa
Heidi Kiiwetinepinisiik Stark (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe),
University of Victoria
Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee), University of Victoria
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg,
Alderville First Nation), Dechinta
Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene), University of British
Columbia
Alex Wilson (Opaskwayak Cree), University of Saskatchewan
Doug Williams (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg, Curve Lake First
Nation), Trent University
Manulani Meyer (Hawaiian), University of Hawai‘i–West
O‘ahu
Melody McKiver (Anishinaabe)
Webinars available at www.dechinta.ca