Voices of Trauma and Hope

Lee Maracle, Columpa Bobb, and Tania Carter

Hope Matters. Book*hug $18.00

Shannon Webb-Campbell

I Am a Body of Land. Book*hug $18.00

The two books under review are written by and about Indigenous women, and both are representative of past and present artistic and socio-political calls for bringing awareness to their lives--"unfinished" lives, Shannon Webb-Campbell writes--in the context of ongoing colonialism and genocide in Canada, as defined in the recently published Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

With Hope Matters, Sto:lo author Lee Maracle and her daughters Columpa Bobb and Tania Carter have published a book that--through individual poems that dialogue and finally merge into one strong, collective female voice--honours, addresses, and simultaneously enacts relationships. The victimization of Indigenous women is one of the major themes in this collaborative work--without, however, further victimizing them. On the contrary, Maracle, Bobb,...