Restoring Nationhood

Leanne Simpson is a researcher, writer, and educator of Mississauga and Scottish ancestry. She is a member of the gidigaa bzhiw dodem and a citizen of the Nishnaabeg nation. She is also a storyteller of Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg ancestry and is a member of Alderville First Nation. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba, and teaches in the PhD Program in Indigenous Studies at Trent University.

Leanne has published over thirty scholarly articles and written for Now Magazine, Spirit Magazine, Anishinabek News, the Link, Briarpatch Magazine, The Dominion, Muskart Magazine, Racialious, Rabble, Huffington Post and Canadian Art Magazine, among many others. Her third book, Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence and a New Emergence was published in 2011 and turns to Nishnaabeg theory and philosophy for guidance in building and maintaining resurgence movements.

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