Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a writer, educator and activist of Mississauga Nishnaabeg ancestry. She is the author of Dancing on Our Turtle's Back and Islands of Decolonial Love and the inaugural recipient of the RBC Charles Taylor emerging writer award.

Latest from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Indigenous summer reading: 3 top picks by Leanne Simpson

Author writer, educator and activist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson chooses Celia's Song, by Lee Maracle, as one of her all-time favourite books.

Indigenous August 14, 2015

Opinion

Grassy Narrows First Nation 'not victims,' says advocate

The people of Grassy Narrows First Nation have been coping with and resisting the violence of on-going dispossession in their homeland for the last 100 years or more.

Indigenous July 31, 2014