As We Have Always Done

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.

In toata America de Nord, actele de rezistenta indigene s-au opus in ultimii ani eliminarii protectiilor federale pentru padurile si caile navigabile din tinuturile indigene, au oprit extinderea extractiei nisipurilor de gudron si constructia conductei la Standing Rock si au cerut dreptate pentru femeile indigene ucise si disparute . In Asa cum am facut intotdeauna, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson localizeaza renasterea politica indigena ca o practica inradacinata in teoretizarea, scrierea, organizarea si gandirea unica a indigenilor. si pamant.