Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Birthing Practices"

‘There was a lot of bad outcomes … miscarriages’: health official CBC Indigenous: It was New Year’s Eve when Tenielle Easter started bleeding. Staff at the nearby hospital confirmed her fears — she was having a miscarriage. “It was very, very hard and traumatizing for me,” she said. “I didn’t know what to do. I...

Group aims to transform their community through maternal support, traditional teachings CBC Indigenous: Helping empower women is at the heart of what a collective of Kanien’kehá:ka birth helpers are doing in their community. They’re called Konwati’shatstenhsherawi’s, which means “women are giving each other power” in Kanien’kéha, or the Mohawk language. “We’re communal people,” said Jody Jacobs, who...