A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Wichita she recounts her difficult childhood

she recounts her difficult childhood as the daughter of an army sergeant

As they huddle together on a rock ledge and pray for help

and stories that are by turns comic

leaving entire communities and environments in danger and without clean water

their voices

A Short History of the Blockade: Giant Beavers, Diplomacy, and Regeneration in Nishnaabewin Wichita she recounts her difficult childhoodIn 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. Moving through genres, shifting through time, amikwag stories become a lens for the life giving possibilities of dams and the world building possibilities of blockades,