Winner: Native American and Indigenous Studies Association's Best Subsequent Book 2017 Honorable Mention: Labriola Center American Indian National Book Award 2017 Across North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections f. Read more ISBNĪs We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom through Radical Resistance (Trade Paperback / Paperback) Though confined to the city limits, An Enduring Wilderness is full of surprising ecological and urban discoveries that know no limits themselves. A historical essay and an appendix highlight the history, the biodiversity, and the priceless cultural value of these urban parklands.
Burley's photos are augmented with selections of poetry and prose by some of Toronto's best-known writers, including Anne Michaels, George Elliott Clarke, Alissa York, and Michael Mitchell.
Commissioned by the City of Toronto to chronicle the wonders of these wilderness parks, renowned photographer Robert Burley looks at these sites as integral parts of urban life, from breathtaking lake views of the Scarborough Bluffs to glimpses of the densely wooded trails in the Carolinian forests of Rouge Park, Canada's first and only urban national park. se distinctive landscapes rediscovered and even embraced as great civic spaces. Instead, she calls for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state, including heteropatriarchy, white supremacy, and capitalist exploitation.An Enduring Wilderness: Toronto's Natural Parklands (Hardback)īy (photographer) Burley, Robert By Michaels, Anne Mitchell, Michael Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake York, Alissaįeaturing tributes from award-winning writers< In a city sometimes referred to as "The Big Smoke," Toronto's extensive network of sunken rivers, forested vales, and expansive shoreline has been too often overlooked, neglected, or forgotten. Simpson makes clear that its goal can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic. Indigenous resistance is a radical rejection of contemporary colonialism focused around the refusal of the dispossession of both Indigenous bodies and land. In As We Have Always Done, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Indigenous freedom and creating changeĪcross North America, Indigenous acts of resistance have in recent years opposed the removal of federal protections for forests and waterways in Indigenous lands, halted the expansion of tar sands extraction and the pipeline construction at Standing Rock, and demanded justice for murdered and missing Indigenous women.
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