As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Indigenous Americas)

Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017
Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017

Across 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 Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking.

Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.

• Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Indigenous Americas)
• Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination
• Islands of Decolonial Love
• As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock
• Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
• The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies
• Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
• Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
• On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
• Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement (Indigenous Americas)