Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Mississauga Nishnaabeg writer, musician, and academic from Canada. She is also known for her work with Idle No More protests. Simpson is a faculty member at the Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning. She lives in Peterborough.
Leanne is an off-reserve member of Alderville First Nation, where her grandmother Audrey Williamson (née Franklin), was born in 1925. Simpson's great-grandfather, Hartley Franklin later relocated to Peterborough to work on canoes when Audrey was... meer