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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

@biidaasamose.bsky.social
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Michi Saagiig Nishnaabe writer, musician, intellectual www.leannesimpson.ca

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Register for ScALE. in person and online! October 29.
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Anti-Colonial History @anticolonialhistry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
On this day in 1958, Mohawk lawyer, activist, educator, and author, Aywahande Patricia Monture-Angus is born. As an abolitionist, she played a key role in getting Canadian prisons to allow Indigenous ceremonies and healing circles inside. anticolonialhistory.com/event/297/
Cover of Thunder in My Soul A Mohawk Woman Speaks
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“I want my body to remain whole, wrapped in a pristine white shroud, unmarred by the stain of red.” Mayar Nateel writes about her mother’s hands, marked by fear since 2014, and the ordinary death she now dreams of amid genocide in Gaza. Read now on The Key. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/gaza-genoc...
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Diary from Gaza: “I Dream of an Ordinary Death”
The road to Khan Yunis once passed through familiar streets and landmarks. Three years into the genocide, the journey is marked by destruction.
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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Using Signal? Use it safely. And remember, just because it’s on Signal doesn’t mean it’s not subject to subpoenas, search warrants, or discovery.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I'm going to keep posting this by @blacklikewho.bsky.social because i think its analyses are right on. It is urgent and brilliant. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
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The university is the crisis
The crisis of the university is its inability to be honest about the nature of its self-induced crisis. Its leaders or senior managers often share the perspectives of those who wish the university to ...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For years, people have asked @tanuja.bsky.social and me how we built and sustained Understory, our spiritual and emotional support group for activists. So we made a toolkit to help others build spaces of their own.
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The Understory Toolkit
Creating spaces of reflection, belonging, and collective care
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Indigenous Climate Action @indigenousca.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🚨 THREE WEEKS UNTIL RIVER RUN 🚨 Join Chrissy Isaacs and Clayton Thomas Muller at River Run fighting for mercury justice. 📅 September 23, 2026 🕛 12 PM ET 📍 Toronto, ON Watch. Share. Join Grassy Narrows. RSVP: freegrassy.net/river-run-2026-rsvp
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Eli Meyerhoff @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm excited to join the podcast, Another Education Is Possible, as a co-host for their third season. Stay tuned for interviews with Mark Bray (@mark-bray.bsky.social) on anarchist education, Leanne Simpson (@biidaasamose.bsky.social) on The Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, and many more!
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/08/2026
Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
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Fake US thinktank set up and funded by Israel sought to game AI for propaganda
In effort to prime chatbots to make pro-Israel arguments the site published 124 reports, over 560,000 words in nine days, Guardian analysis shows A pro-Israel messaging website badged with the name of a thinktank that does not exist has published more than half a million words in nine days, built on a commercial platform that promises to optimize content so that AI chatbots will cite it. The site gives Israel’s position on subjects including the torture of Palestinian prisoners, Israeli war crimes and whether Israel has deliberately starved Palestinians in Gaza, all presented as neutral research. Continue reading...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Fifth Annual Alchemy Lecture. ScALE. October 29, 2026 www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is!
Four Alchemy Lecture books. In a stack.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
The Machine That Came for Jason Arday | The Nation To arrive through a remedy is not to arrive on sufferance. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The Machine That Came for Jason Arday
It wasn't a scandal but a machine—funded, transatlantic, and still running.
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Solidarity with Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has been treating children the world over for 40 years. He made his first trip to Gaza during First Intifada in 1989 But he is now facing UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism & antisemitism observer.co.uk/news/interna...
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‘Everything hurts’: The UK surgeon mending young minds an...
British-Palestinian Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah continues to treat victims of Israel’s wars, but is facing a UK high court case accusing him of posts supporting terrorism and antisemitism
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"It would look like asking each Palestinian neighborhood what they wanted...It would look like more schools, more parks, more playgrounds. It would look like safe streets and safe children. It would look like the Muhammad Abu Khdeir Square, and Omar Hussam Yaqoub Shuwaiki Circle..."
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Designing Our Future
by Mahdi Sabbagh with Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin May 6, 2026—I begin my day reading about the “real estate expo” that took place at the Park East Synagogue on New York’s wealthy white Upper East Side neigh...
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freegrassy.bsky.social @freegrassy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One month until River Run! Chrissy Isaacs & Clayton Thomas-Müller will be at River Run fighting for mercury justice. Will you march with them? On Sept. 23, thousands will march through Toronto with Grassy Narrows - will you? RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/river... #RiverRun2026 #GrassyNarrows
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
This is a survival & legal fund for a Palestinian student facing protracted state violence and dispossession. We CANNOT find solutions for him without money! Every dollar helps. Make it weekly. 5/259 by Sunday. chuffed.org/project/ahmedf
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Help survivor Ahmed get back on his feet
Ahmed is my best friend and colleague, and I am running this campaign on his behalf. Ahmed F is an art therapist, educator, and student. Since being displaced from Gaza in 2024, he's been striving to ...
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Simpson finished one of the most captivating sets of the festival with a powerful cover of Willie Dunn's "I Pity the Country." Although the song was written in 1971, it sounds like it could've been written yesterday. Simpson and her band left the stage to thunderous applause and a standing ovation"
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The gatekeepers and obfuscators are already attempting to rewrite the Arday affair with no indictment of the university as institution and with even less implication for the actors who willing hold up and insist on its deadly culture. Your fine slick words cannot evade our eyes. We see you.
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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Israel deliberately starting wildfires in southern Lebanon, firefighters say
Emergency services, residents and environmental groups say military dropping flares to destroy forests and crops
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The destructive and disastrous consequences of expanding fossil fuel production extend far beyond any single territory," the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) said in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith.
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UBCIC calls on Carney, Smith to halt pipeline advancement
The UBCIC is calling on the prime minister and premier of Alberta to halt plans to construct the West Coast pipeline.
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Julie Penner @julespenner.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“And me and my anger sit, folding a paper bird / Letting the curtains turn to beating wings” #Weakerthans #Prisons
But for the past few years, he’s been teaching creative writing and literacy to people in Manitoba jails.

“Three weeks ago, while I was still preparing for this talk, I got a furious email from a manager from the Winnipeg Remand Centre where I lead classes,” Samson Fellows told his audience as they put the finishing touches on their paper cups.“He informed me that origami paper is contraband and told me to stop sharing it with my students immediately.”

When Samson Fellows called back to apologize and ask why origami paper was considered contraband, he was told that any object that could be modified into something else was forbidden.“So,” he said, pausing to give weight to his next words: “Anything that can be changed or transformed is not permitted in the Winnipeg Remand Centre. Any change or transformation is not allowed in Manitoba prisons,” he repeated.

“In case I am being too subtle, this is an anecdote about how prisons can’t be reformed, and must be abolished.”
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Truthout @truthout.org · 06/08/2026
"It’s important for us to understand that these are not tools for us to reclaim our culture and for us to reclaim our language. These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us. And that’s extremely scary." says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
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You Can’t Drink Data: Native Communities Are Resisting the AI Death Cycle
“These are tools to extract from who we are to erase us,” says organizer Krystal Two Bulls.
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Want to support mutual aid groups and unions at the forefront of relief efforts in Sudan and learn from the brilliant Robin DG Kelley? Here is your chance: Secure your spot now. August 20th, 6 pm. Sliding scale. Zoom. See link below. chuffed.org/project/work...
Image of Robin Kelley (a Black person with a beard) facing the camera wearing a blue paisley shirt. A tree trunk is in the background. In yellow and green, the text reads Robin DG Kelley how to fight fascism: lessons from Chicago.

In yellow and green, the text reads Robin DG Kelley how to fight fascism: lessons from Chicago. Description of the workshop. Thursday August 20th 6pm. Zoom.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/07/2026
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is continuing to support mutual aid work in North Darfur and Kordofan and has recently started supported the tea vendors union as they rebuild their livelihoods. To support go to: www.sudansolidarity.com.
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Indigenous Climate Action @indigenousca.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Wildfires are spreading across Turtle Island, destroying many Indigenous communities' homes. It is our time support in whichever ways we can in order to provide resources that they need during these difficult times. Please consider donating ! #MutualAid #WildfireResources
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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars
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Stealing Cars: Property, Automobility, and the Colonial Crisis of Car Culture
Long Ride | Historian John Munro delves into the past in order to understand how the primacy of private property shapes mobility hierarchies in the present
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Folk Lyrics in a Dangerous Time @folklyrics.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Summer Vol. 2 19/20 "Surface Tension" leannesimpson.bandcamp.com/track/surfac... Words by @biidaasamose.bsky.social Music by @ansleysmusic.bsky.social , Nick Ferrio, and producers Jonas Bonetta and @jimbryson.bsky.social Backing vocals by John K. Samson and co-writers #MusicSky #folkmusic 🎶
These are simple stolen moments
And we love when we are able...

And there are beating wings
Reminding me if you fly
Forever you can have
Two summers
And the river only goes
One way
And you can't get lost

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

[very pale sky blue]
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
6 university credits earned. Hides tanned. New covers sewn. Meals, tuition, child care provided. Classes in canvas tents. All under 24 hours of day light with wonderful Gwich'in and Inuvialuit students on the site of the old residential schools 200 km north of the arctic circle. #dechinta #inuvik
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Whess @ndn-bebop.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
If you happen to be in Sackville, NB, wanna take a little drive from Moncton or are coming out for Sappyfest, you can also see some of my new work at Struts gallery 😌🌸 www.strutsgallery.ca/post/exhibit...
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Exhibition | POTLATCH PUNK WORLD TOUR 2 | Whess Harman
June 13 – August 7, 2026 Artist Talk: Saturday, August 1, 11 amStruts Gallery is pleased to present POTLATCH PUNK WORLD TOUR 2 a new series of ink drawings by Whess Harman depicting rambunctious, crow...
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honortheearth.bsky.social @honortheearth.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
🚨THIS TUESDAY🚨 🗓️June 9th 🕰️5:30pm to 6:30pm MT Indigenous Communities. This is a long needed conversation that you don’t want to miss! Register now: bit.ly/Stop-AlDeathCycle See you soon! 🌱 #YouCantDrinkData #protectMotherEarth
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Indigenous Plant Walk with T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss This walk is open only to Indigenous, Black, and racialized refugee & migrant peoples, with priority for BIPOC queer and/or trans Elders and youth. Details, accessibility & registration process by June 21 www.weavingourworlds.ca/plant-walk/
Poster for Plant Walk
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You've Changed Records @youvechanged.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Pyrrhic Victories (Live at Port William Sound) Filmed by Monika Kraska @biidaasamose.bsky.social - vocals Caylie Runciman - guitar, vocals Phillippe Charbonneau - bass Callum Runciman - guitar Tasy Hudson - drums Jonas Bonetta - vocals youtu.be/IJYn_olAiOk
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Pyrrhic Victories (Live at Port William Sound)
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Al Raven @alraven.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
@williamcson.bsky.social's text on Black Zionism in @thefunambulist.bsky.social is so, so, so good! 🔥🔥 I recommend checking it out, I strongly related to the frustration about people still hanging on to the (nation-)state as a path to/tool for liberation!
People the world over have been led astray trying
to engage in the rationale of nations and states
in order to try to fit into frameworks that don't
serve the colonized and enslaved. The examples
are endless, but it is essential to understand that
we're still directly negotiating with the violence of
the colonial state form, whether through inclusion,
reform, or the seizure of this class instrument
designed to control populations (not free them).
We do not seize the state; the state seizes us.
Furthermore, it changes us by reshaping our
struggles into a format that monopolizes violence
and capitalizes on behalf of a ruling elite or Party.
To think it does anything different at a point in
time when a few people control the majority of the
world's wealth is nearly a fantasy.
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
the US is taking “unprecedented” measures to secure ownership over Canadian mines, turning Canada—and the First Nations from whose lands the minerals are sourced—into a US mining territory, the Canadian government is funding & fast-tracking these projects breachmedia.ca/elbows-up-ca...
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Elbows up? Canada is letting Pentagon take ‘unprecedented’ stakes in Canadian mines  ⋆ The Breach
By fast-tracking critical minerals, Canada is not simply building a green economy. It is being further integrated into the U.S. war industry
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Listen to All My Relations Podcast on Theory of Water with Matika Wilbur x Temryss Lane recorded last summer in Seattle. Miigwech for having me. www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/theo...
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Theory of Water: World-Making with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — All My Relations
What can water teach us about time, grief, creation, and the futures we are trying to build? In this live conversation from Tidelands in Seattle, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and schola...
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Dechinta x Solid State is running a free online workshop series on building workers co-ops in the north and beyond, facilitated by Syed Khawar, Katrina Mugume, Arshia Uppal & Muryam Babar. Sign up because it's cooler to do stuff. www.dechinta.ca/coopseries
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Great to see a new episode pop up on "All My Relations" with @biidaasamose.bsky.social talking about her incredible book "Theory of Water." www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/podcast/theo...
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Theory of Water: World-Making with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson — All My Relations
What can water teach us about time, grief, creation, and the futures we are trying to build? In this live conversation from Tidelands in Seattle, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and schola...
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
theory of water on cbc ideas.
app.magellan.ai
Following the wisdom of water to remake an unravelling world
Listen to Ideas
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
hey vancouver. january 29 @ 730. chan centre.
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An Evening with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Chan Centre
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson will discuss her newest book, Theory of Water, on January 29 at the Chan Centre. Get your tickets today.
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You've Changed Records @youvechanged.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
“I’m wishing I could live like the sky…” Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Disintegrations Directed by Kevin Drew and Rachel McLean @biidaasamose.bsky.social
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Disintegrations
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vish khanna @vishkhanna.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
October 25, 2025 Ep. 1031: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Thanks Leanne! @biidaasamose.bsky.social @youvechanged.bsky.social vishkhanna.com/2025/10/25/e...
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Ep. #1031: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson - Kreative Kontrol
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson returns to discuss her new album 'Live Like the Sky,' why people are so often air unaware, her book 'Theory of Water' and how a world ending means a new one is beginning, t...
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
book of the day 🌲🌲🌲
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Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson review – startlingly original
The Indigenous Canadian author brilliantly captures the interdependence of humans and the natural world, in a darkly satirical critique of colonialism
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