Dancing the World Into Being: A Conversation With Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson

From my perspective as a Native American woman, I have always been taught from an early age by my parents, grandparents, and relatives to respect all beings. I have been taught that I am part of everything that exists—from the elements of air, fire, water, Mother Earth, and the ethers, the stones, and the stars in the heavens.17 This interconnected

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This work is about relationship—with sacred medicines, self, loved ones, community, humanity, and the miracle of life on Earth. None of our healing, empowerment, and self-liberation matters if we cannot be in high relationship with this most exquisite and extraordinary home planet—and all the other precious living beings we share her with. That is

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It kind of romanticizes the Indigenous, and this is why, you know, sometimes I find that in the recent upheavals and desire to center Indigenous realities, there is a romanticization of those Indigenous technologies that kind of instrumentalized them for modern anxieties, like, grabs them by the scruff of their necks and says, “here's climate chang... See more