Dancing on Our Turtle's Back by Leanne Simpson

Author:Leanne Simpson [Simpson Leanne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781894037686
Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
Published: 2012-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

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The telling and retelling of this story, to me, represents a resurgence narrative. Nanabozho diagnoses the problem, seeks out knowledge from his Nokomis, his Elder, works with all aspects of his being to collectivize the problem and its solution and he builds a clan-based, community-based restoration plan, which results in a local resurgence to realign the people with Creation and mino bimaadiziwin.

What it reveals to me is that destruction (although not genocidal destruction) is part of the cycle of life, and that we as theorists and intellectuals cannot just get stuck in the diagnosis or the revelation of the problem. Nishnaabeg thought propels us to be responsible within our individual selves, to vision and dream our way out of the cognitive box of imperialism.

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