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In 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
beaver—or 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, deepening our understanding of
Indigenous resistance as both a negation and an affirmation. Widely
recognized as one of the most compelling Indigenous voices of her
generation, Simpson’s work breaks open the intersections between
politics, story, and song, bringing audiences into a rich and
layered world of sound, light, and sovereign creativity. A Short
History of the Blockade reveals how the practice of telling stories
is also a culture of listening, “a thinking through together,”
and ultimately, like the dam or the blockade, an affirmation of
life.
A popular approach to the subject, not an academic book. Tomson
Highway is not an academic. He is an artist who uses artistic
language.Readers are not obliged to read the whole volume. Each
page is like an entry in an encyclopedia. All one has to do is leaf
through the table of contents, choose an entry, and ignore all the
rest or, rather, save it for another more propitious time.Each book
description is a snapshot. Not only should the reader's curiosity
be piqued to the point where he or she will want to buy the book
seen in that snapshot, he will want to read more books written by
the same author.Think of this book as "Tomson's Books," which would
be this fascinating collection of writings by Native writers
wherein this ridiculous Cree man from northern Manitoba chats
warmly about and then, similar to Gilmour's Albums, the popular
radio show that ran from 1957 to 1997 on CBC Radio hosted by the
amiable Clyde Gilmour.
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