A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Adult Education They drew inspiration from global

They drew inspiration from global currents -- from black American freedom movements to Third World decolonization -- to challenge the inequalities and racial logics that shaped settler-colonialism and daily life in Kenora

and Gerald McMaster (Plains Cree/Siksika First Nation)

Cree language is important to Kokum and she explains when she was young the residential school teachers said her language was forbidden

She just can’t stop slipping back and forth in time

He takes readers on a respectful caribou harvest

A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Adult Education They drew inspiration from globalIn 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. The introduction is by Jordan Abel, Nisga'a poet. A Short History of the Blockades moves through genres, shifting through time, where amikwag stories become a lens for the