1. Who is Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and what expertise
does she bring to the research and writing of this text?
2. What is her tribal affiliation?
3. Where is the land of the Anishinaabeg?
4. How would you cite a specific quote from this book using
your choice of MLA, APA, or Chicago Style? Give an example quote/sentence with
the proper citation.
5. How would you cite this book for a bibliography or Works
Cited page using your choice of MLA, APA, or Chicago Style?
6. Who is Champlain, what message does Trent’s logo send to
students, and why do you think Simpson opens her work with this story about
walking on campus with her children?
(pg. 1)
7. What is kobade and how does it resonate for you? (pgs.
7-9)
8. Have you yet experienced that point in life when you
“know which things in life are rare and which things happen all the time if you
remain open and happen to be in the right place at the right time?” What is
something rare that you’ve experienced and treasure? (pg. 11)
9. Why and how did Simpson come to trust Dr. Paul Dribben as
an anthropologist and researcher who was
an outsider to the community? What
critiques does she make about the EAGLE project she worked on with him? (pgs.
12-15)
10. What is marronage?
11. Try to explain grounded normativity (which Simpson
emphasizes is exemplified by Nishnaabeg intelligence) in your own words and
give an example. (pgs. 22-23)
12. What are the many ways settler colonialism has been/is
experienced by the Anishinaabeg? (See Chapter Two)
13. Simpson explicitly states that this book is not adhere
to Western academic norms. What does she mean by this? (pg. 30-31)
14. What is Kwe and how does kwe as a knowledge system
become a method of resistance and radical resurgence? (See Chapter 2)
15. What is the shadow side of the state finally recognizing
the hunting and fishing rights promised in the 1818 treaty? In other words, why
is this not the good news it appears to be on the surface? (See chapter 3)
16. What does the term SQ2 mean? How does Christianization
play a role? (pgs. 41-44)
17. Why does Simpson explicitly use “radical” as a modifier
for resurgence in her work? (pgs. 47-51)
18. Why does Simpson center gender? (pgs. 51-54)
19. What would it mean to shift priorities to the
accumulation of networks of trust rather than capital? (Chapter 5)
20. Choose one item from the list (pgs. 87-90) and unpack it
here.
21. What kind of damage have heteropatriarchal, monogamous
norms imposed by religious outsiders done to the Nishnaabeg culture? (Chapter
7)
22. How is queerness normative in Nishnaabeg culture?
(Chapter 8)
23. What is the sugar bush and why is it central to the
Nishnaabeg people and the idea of land as pedagogy? (Chapter 9)
24. What does it mean for the colonizer to be the mirror?
What other mirrors are possible? (Chapter 10)
25. What does decolonization look like and how is it
embodied according to Simpson? (Chapter 11)
26. How does Simpson use and expand upon the metaphor of
constellations in chapter 12?
27. Explain and explore the concept of generative refusal as
presented in the conclusion.
28. What is something valuable that you will take from
Simpson’s work?