When Davina Two Bears was working on getting her bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College in the late 1980s, she had such a hard time fitting in, and the courses were so difficult, that she almost dropped out. “It was a lonely time,” she recalls. “I was a fish out of water.” Or, more precisely, Two Bears was a Navajo in New Hampshire.
The Aunties: Women of the White Shell Water Place" is a celebration of three New Mexico women — Nora Naranjo-Morse, Deborah Taffa, and Laura Tohe — and of the tradition they embody, that of “the aunties” who nurture, shape, and heal Indigenous communities.