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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson<\/a>\u00a0is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar,\u00a0writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, \u00a0story and song\u2014bringing audiences into a rich and layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity.<\/p>\n Working for over a decade an independent scholar using Nishnaabeg intellectual practices,\u00a0Leanne \u00a0has lectured and taught extensively at universities across Canada and has twenty years experience with Indigenous land based education. She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba,\u00a0is currently faculty at the Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning in Denendeh (NWT) and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Faculty of Arts at Ryerson University. Leanne’s books are regularly used in courses across Canada and the United States \u00a0including\u00a0Dancing on Our Turtle\u2019s Back<\/em>,\u00a0The Gift Is in the Making<\/em>, \u00a0Lighting the Eighth Fire<\/em>\u00a0(editor),\u00a0This Is An Honour Song<\/em>\u00a0(editor with Kiera Ladner) and\u00a0The Winter We Danced: Voice from the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement<\/em>\u00a0(Kino-nda-niimi editorial collective). Her paper\u00a0“Land As Pedagogy”<\/a>\u00a0was awarded the Most thought-provoking 2014 article in Native American and Indigenous Studies.\u00a0\u00a0Her latest book,\u00a0As We Have Always Done: \u00a0Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0was published by the University of Minnesota Press in the fall of 2017.<\/p>\n As a writer, Leanne was named the inaugural RBC Charles Taylor Emerging writer by Thomas King in 2014 and in 2017 she was a finalist in the Rogers Writers’\u00a0Trust Fiction Prize.\u00a0She has published extensive fiction and poetry in both book and magazine form. Her second book of short stories and poetry,\u00a0This Accident of Being Lost<\/em>\u00a0is a follow up to the acclaimed\u00a0Islands of Decolonial Love<\/em>\u00a0and was published by the House of Anansi Press in Spring 2017.<\/p>\n Leanne is also a musician combining poetry, storytelling, song writing and performance in collaboration with musicians to create unique spoken songs and soundscapes. Leanne’s second record\u00a0f(l)light\u00a0<\/em>produced by Jonas Bonnetta (Evening Hymns), was released in the fall of 2016 on RPM Records.<\/p>\n Leanne is Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg and a member of Alderville First Nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Leanne Betasamosake Simpson\u00a0is a renowned Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar,\u00a0writer and artist, who has been widely recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her generation. Her work breaks open the intersections between politics, \u00a0story and song\u2014bringing audiences into… Continue Reading