Description: Mapping Neshnabé Futurity is an essential read that offers a rethinking of how we conceive of futurity and sovereignty. Morseau's interdisciplinary approach, blending anthropological research with literary critique, shows how counter-mapping projects both on the ground and in the skies reclaim space in the Great Lakes region--Neshnabé homelands--and are part of Anishinaabé/Neshnabé communities' constellations of Indigenous futurities and stories of survivance.
Review Quotes: "Blaire Morseau presents a fresh and exciting view of Indigenous kinship and relationships to land/environment in her book. Drawing on her own community-based knowledge, Morseau shows that Indigenous knowledge has the capability of creating desirable futures for Indigenous communities going forward. A must-read."--Deondre Smiles, author of Decolonized Afterlife: Towards A New Understanding of the Spatial Politics Surrounding Indigenous Death
"Blaire Morseau's Mapping Neshnabé Futurity argues the everyday lived activities of Potawatomi peoples enables futures on their own terms, and tackles the idea of landscapes of possibility through nation-building projects. This book is necessary for classroom use and anyone interested in Indigenous futurisms as they disrupt and upend settler colonialism."--Natasha Myhal, Ohio State University "A deeply necessary project that grounds our hope for futurity in our present relations and foregrounds the importance of Indigenous relationships to land and water situated in embodied practices and ceremonial praxis."--Renata Ryan Burchfield, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign