Leanne Betasamosake Simpson offers a powerful meditation on water as both elemental force and guiding philosophy for resisting capitalism, dispossession, and violence. Drawing on Nishnaabeg wisdom, Simpson asks us to listen deeply—to snow, to creeks, to our own breath—and to embrace cyclical time and the practice of “sintering,” a communal bond-building that weaves us together with the land without destroying it. She argues that we urgently need to learn how to dream and co-resist alongside anti‑colonial movements in our struggle towards liberation.

Against the backdrop of climate catastrophe, genocide in Gaza, Sudan, and the Congo, and the ongoing Nakba in Palestine, Simpson’s writings remind us that feeling helpless is not the same as being useless. Indigenous ways of knowing reveal multiple pathways to live contrary to the status quo, insisting that we cannot talk about Indigenous liberation without planetary liberation. This is a beautifully written, urgently needed gift of regenerative thinking and embodied practice.

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