Poetry

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As girls we sang behind our mother while she read poetry in the 1970s and 1980s, we performed together at Stein Valley and at music festivals

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With the publishing of our first co-written book with our late mother, Hope Matters, we've read at the Vancouver Writer's Festival, Winnipeg International Writer's Festival, and Sunshine Coast Festival of the Written Arts. Most recently we read at the Planet Earth Festival.

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Tania and Columpa's Published Works:

 

Hope Matters by Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter

To purchase our book of poetry, click here!

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Indigenous Oral Knowledge Transmission:

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Our historic process of knowledge transmission was familial. Each generation of the longhouse gifted their intelligences to all who resided within. Generations of expertise in every area of our lives was available. Colonially imposed educational culture was not yet forced upon us.

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It is our responsibility to help pass on this bundle of knowledge gathered by our mother. It is part of Indigenous processes to pass it along. In the longhouse, by the time one became a grandparent they would have collected the stories of their people, and would have experienced a life’s worth of challenges and successes in our relations to nature. 

 

We believe that to be moving forward we need to hold onto the knowledge given to us by nature, our forebears being conduits and guides of this intelligence, and speak it out to continue it's generational impact.