As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance

As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical ResistanceAcross 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

sweat lodges

and being a mentor for Native Americans and young women interested in engineering

a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners

on the outside

and many other pertinent examples

Thomas and Patrice live in this impoverished reservation community along with young Chippewa boxer Wood Mountain and his mother Juggie Blue

Based on the extraordinary life of National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich’s grandfather who worked as a night watchman and carried the fight against Native dispossession from rural North Dakota all the way to Washington

David Heska Wanbli Weiden has written the first of what I hope is a series of books about life on Rosebud Reservation

An accessible

and between peace and violence

Louise Phelps Kellogg

These Clan Mothers may be wisdom-keepers