ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author describes a feminism of the common; that is a reading of what people hold in common as founded in a feminist politics derived from an immanent form of spirituality. Leanne Simpson discusses an indigenous approach to theory as a storied form that is shared across generations as a kind of intelligence. The transmutation of the land in the story contains a complex theory of origin that includes several implicit assumptions about the formation and distribution of living force. There is an assumption, for example, that everything that is necessary for the production of life already exists, although it may be unevenly distributed or difficult to access. Simpson writing on theory in the Nishnaabeg tradition in North America, echoes and extends the kind of theory encountered in the cosmology of the dreamtime. Simpson also notes that access to Nishnaabeg knowledge requires an "embodiment of the teachings one already carries".
