A navigator reckons with the gift, and burden, of ancient knowledge.  

Ancestral Memory / As Slippery as an Eel by Claire G. Coleman

Read by Chelsea Hawke.

Down in the belly of the ship, a crewmate waits for the test that will determine her role, and how she will pay her way on this ride across the stars.

But it's in her dreams and the memories that can't possibly be hers that destiny awaits. A destiny shaped by blood. 

Ancestral Memory / As Slippery as an Eel, considers how there are some knowledges as old as time, ways of being, and knowing that will survive long into the future, perhaps even once we have left this world. 

About Claire G. Coleman 

Claire G. Coleman is a Wirlomin Noongar woman whose Country is on the south coast of Western Australia. She writes prose, non-fiction, verse and criticism and has written 4 books including Terra Nullius and Lies, Damned Lies. '

She is a founding collaborator on the Creative Climate consortium with her collective the Centre for Reworlding.

Unfolded is produced with support from the Melbourne Public Humanities Initiative, on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri people of the Eastern Kulin Nation.

The producers would like to pay their respects to the traditional owners, to their Elders past and present, and to acknowledge their storytelling history, which goes back tens of thousands of years. 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.