As We Have Always Done gives us a glimmer of hope. The world we live in right now feels cold and unwelcoming.
She explores the importance of the land as pedagogy, two spiritedness, extractivism, and the need for an anti-capitalism analysis and fight back plan. In this book, a number of ideas and aspects of Betasamosake Simpson’s culture are introduced. She asks, “I am asking myself, what does it mean to write with Indigenous theory? What does it mean to prioritize being with each other, being with the work, being with the possibilities, more than they prioritize the gymnastics of trying to get it right in a structure built on wrongness?” She offers hope and a vision of what alternatives could look like in a world that seems bent on unapologetic destruction. As Simon Moya-Smith, the culture editor at the Indian Country Media Network describes the book, “She provides a pure, Indigenous lens-a lens that the white man tried to kill and bury.”īetasamosake Simpson provides that lens with a thorough analysis of history and injustice and a deep reflection into her culture and what’s possible to learn from this. It is essentially a guide, a guide for a better world, one where we wrestle with and then resist the colonialist nature of our current reality. This book is an in-depth look into indigenous resistance and what is possible when that resistance embraces indigenous culture.
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance
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