Indigenous Midwifery
What is Indigenous Midwifery?
"Indigenous Midwifery care is a pathway that supports the regeneration of strong Indigenous families by bringing birth closer to home—by restoring the emphasis on birth as normal, rather than approaching it as an illness in need of treatment. Indigenous midwifery honours Indigenous peoples, languages, oral cultures, and traditions. Indigenous midwives uphold birth as a deeply profound and sacred event. Indigenous midwives play a key role in building healthy and safe Indigenous communities, in rural and urban areas." -National Aboriginal Council of Midwives
Indigenous Midwifery in the news:
Why Indigenous women are bringing 'the first ceremony' — birth — back to their communities
Associations & Health Authorities
- Tsi Non:we Ionnakeratstha-Ona:grahstaSix Nations Health Services Birthing Centre
Open Education Resources
My Journey Into Motherhood by Lorena Fontaine
My Journey Into Motherhood by Lorena Fontaine - connects the themes of aboriginal home birth and the residential school experience. Suggested by Kim Lawson, Librarian at Xwi7xwa Library.
Indigenous Midwifery Books
Annotated bibliography of Aboriginal women's health and healing research by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library - PWH B46 A55 2005ISBN: 0973997605Publication Date: 2005
At Work in the Field of Birth by Call Number: Woodward Library - WQ160 .M135 2007Publication Date: 2008- Birthing Through First Nations Midwifery Care by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781926543246Publication Date: 2009
Caregiving on the Periphery by Call Number: Okanagan Library - WY11.DC2 C385 2010Publication Date: 2010- Celebrating Birth : Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library - SA N346 C45 2008ISBN: 9781026543116Publication Date: 2008
Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time by Call Number: Okanagan Library - GN482.1 .C55 2009Publication Date: 2014
Community Health Nursing : a Canadian perspective by Call Number: Woodward Library - WY106 .C655 2015Publication Date: 2015
Culture, diversity and health in Australia : towards culturally safe health care by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9781760527389Publication Date: 2021- Indigenous Customs in Childbirth and Child Care by Call Number: Koerner Library - GN482.1 .L434 1998ISBN: 9023233662Publication Date: 1988
Maternal Health, Pregnancy-Related Morbidity, and Death among Indigenous Women of Mexico and Central America by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783319715377Publication Date: 2018-06-14- Midwifery and Aboriginal Midwifery in Canada by Call Number: XWI7XWA LIBRARY reserve collectionPublication Date: 2008
Mothers of the Nations by Call Number: Koerner Library, & Okanagan Library - HQ759 .M928 2014ISBN: 9781927335451Publication Date: 2014-10-01
Natal signs : cultural representations of pregnancy, birth and parenting by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library - NA yet ; Okanagan Library - WQ200.1 .N37 2015Publication Date: 2015
Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery by Call Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2006
Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery by Call Number: Woodward Libray, & Rare Books & Special Collections - WQ160 .N4774 2006Publication Date: 2006- An overview of traditional knowledge and medicine and public health in Canada by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9780978324698Publication Date: 2008
- A Persistent Spirit by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library Reserve Collection - SAA S74 P47 1995 ; Koerner Library, & Okanagan Library - E78.B9 P47 1995ISBN: 0919838219Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Placenta Wit by Call Number: Koerner Library - GT2460 .P63 2017ISBN: 9781772581072Publication Date: 2017-07-01
Reconceiving Midwifery by Call Number: Woodward Library, Okanagan Library - RG950 .R42 2004Publication Date: 2004
Red Medicine by Call Number: Koerner Library - E98.R3 G66 2012ISBN: 9780816529568Publication Date: 2012-11-01
Sustainable Birth in Disruptive Times by Call Number: OnlineISBN: 9783030547745Publication Date: 2021-03-23
Taking Medicine by Call Number: Koerner & Okanagan Libraries, and RBSC ASRS - WA309.DC2.1 A3 B87 2010ISBN: 9780774818285Publication Date: 2010-10-28- "Until our hearts are on the ground" : Aboriginal mothering, oppression, resistance and rebirth by Call Number: Xwi7xwa Library - PW L38 U58 2006Publication Date: 2006
Yatdjuligin by Call Number: Woodward Library - WA300 .Y31 2021ISBN: 9781108794695Publication Date: 2021-08-25
Consider Theses
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(aborigin* OR "first nations" OR indigen* OR native* OR indian* OR inuit*) AND (midwi* OR childbirth* OR birth*) - Proquest Dissertations & ThesesSample keyword search:
(aborigin* OR "first nations" OR indigen* OR native* OR indian* OR inuit*) AND (midwi* OR childbirth* OR birth*)
Sample theses:
- Aboriginal Midwifery and Traditional Birthing Systems Revisited and Revitalized: Interviews with First Nations Elders in the Northwest Region of British Columbia: Kimberly A. Ross Leitenberger, University of Northern British Columbia Theses, 1998
- Revisiting the Past : Discovering Traditional Care and the Cultural Meaning of Pregnancy and Birth in a Cree Community: Sandra Jean Kioke, Queen's University Theses, 1999