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.
Awards
Best Subsequent
Book Award from the Native American and Indigenous Studies
Association
Honorable
Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award