TANKA: ‘POWER’

THE HIDDEN POWER OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE

Carole Tansley
2 min readJun 1, 2020
Mount Chincogan: Personal photo

Oh, Mount Chincogan
Women’s ancient dreaming site
Dearest sacred place
Aboriginal power
Hidden in Songlines of land

Background explainer

Mount Chincogan is a 308m mountain overlooking the Australian hinterland town of Mullumbimby in northern New South Wales, Australia. It is the central volcanic cone of a…

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Carole Tansley

Professor Emerita living in the Australian hinterland. Management academic. Story Whisperer. Poet. Autoethnographer. Epiphany Collector. Micro-memoirist.