A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Wichita How can Indigenous knowledge systems

How can Indigenous knowledge systems inform our teaching practices and enhance education

she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant

giving the girl the confidence she needs to become a changemaker in the future

My teachers have been around me all along in the people I've met in my journey through life

and stories that are by turns comic

A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Wichita How can Indigenous knowledge systemsIn A Short History of the Blockade, award winning writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson uses Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg stories, storytelling aesthetics, and practices to explore the generative nature of Indigenous blockades through our relative, the beaveror in Nishnaabemowin, Amik. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life giving possibilities of dams and the world building possibilities of blockades,