Exploring Theme: "Indigenous Birthing Practices"

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...

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...