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June 26, 2023


‘A sacred experience’: Indigenous midwives revive birthing traditions to deliver babies at home

Communities like Kehewin Cree Nation in Alberta are restoring birthing traditions CBC News: On the shore of Kehiwin Lake, four mothers cradle their babies’ placentas in a ceremony held along a newly cleared trail in the bush of the Kehewin Cree Nation in northeast Alberta. Each baby is swaddled in a different coloured fabric and...

December 18, 2022


Why Indigenous women are bringing ‘the first ceremony’ — birth — back to their communities

Traditional birthing practices are part of personal and community healing, says midwifery student CBC: Ellen Blais was taken from her mother when she was a few hours old. As a Sixties Scoop survivor, Blais didn’t grow up knowing her community, her culture or who she was.  “I was adopted into a non-Indigenous home and there...

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