Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg independent scholar, writer and artist. She is a band member of Alderville First Nation.
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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.
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
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