
2025 Book Selection
2025 Book Selection
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, academic, and musician. As We Have Always Done locates Indigenous political resurgence as a practice rooted in uniquely Indigenous theorizing, writing, organizing, and thinking. It makes clear that the goal of Indigenous resistance can no longer be cultural resurgence as a mechanism for inclusion in a multicultural mosaic, calling for unapologetic, place-based Indigenous alternatives to the destructive logics of the settler colonial state. Dr. Simpson is the author of several books, including This Accident of Being Lost and Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (also from Minnesota). She holds a PhD from the University of Manitoba and is a member of Alderville First Nation.
You can learn more about Dr. Simpson here. (You will be redirected from NMU)

About the DCRP
Held annually since 2013, this program comprises an interdisciplinary series of events inspired by a nonfiction book that advances discussions of diversity, inclusion, and justice.
Each year, books are distributed free of charge to interested NMU students (on a first-come-first-served basis), and all events are free and open to the public.
This year we celebrate the 12th anniversary of NMU's Diversity Common Reader Program with As We Have Always Done by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson.
If you would like to recommend a book for the Diversity Common Reader Program, click here!
