Sneak Peek: Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo) Podcast

Rose B. Simpson: So, my mother is ceramicist, my grandma was a potter, my great-grandma was a potter, my great-great-grandma, etc. So, through my matrilineal side, I was given access and shown clay and when I was a kid, every mom that I knew, every grandma, every auntie were working on pottery. They all did pottery and I remember being in the tribal day school and we had to talk about what our moms did for a living and one of the kids said her mom was the manager at Sonic and I remember it kind of melting my brain. I didn't think moms did anything but pottery. That was like the way things are and in the small, intimate history and delicate nature of this cultural perseverance that we're in, it really is special and I think it's incredible that we're still a part of this lineage and we're still walking in the hills behind our homes and seeing the pots, the shards, the broken pieces of the pots that our great-great-great-great grandmas made right there and all those layers of history and connection are still really apparent and vibrant.