The Aunties: Nora Naranjo Morse, Deborah Jackson Taffa, Kendra Mylnechuck Potter

The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place features 3 local indigenous women speaking and sharing stories of place, community, and culture. Host Matthew Chase-Daniel talks with 2 of the Aunties, Nora Naranjo Morse (Kha’p’o Owenge (Santa Clara Pueblo)) and Deborah Jackson Taffa (Quechan (Kwatsáan)/ Laguna), along with the performance’s director Kendra Mylnechuck Potter (Lummi). They talk about art and writing, their own work, women as community culture holders and communicators, and the power that birth, death, writing, and art all have to inspire and transform us.