A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Wichita and stories that are by

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A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Wichita and stories that are byIn 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,