Raspberries | Image source: Barrie Hill Farms The berry fast ceremony marks the stage of life when we start to put away our childhood toys and begin to focus on being a young woman, modelling behaviours and values for the younger generation. My first experience with a berry fast happened when I was four...
My sister was birthed in 2007 with the care of Indigenous midwife, Sara Wolfe and the support of Seventh Generation Midwives of Toronto (SGMT). It was a positive experience for my family – restoring Indigenous birth practices while receiving culturally grounded quality care. Spirit of Birth is a s...
“It is symbolic that it is a birth centre that has been selected to pioneer the integration of programming from an Indigenous framework. It gives hope to the future generations that there is the ability to change, transformation is possible.” Since the first Toronto Idle No More round dance stopped traf...
“…Kill the Indian in the child…I want to get rid of the Indian problem… Our objective is to continue until there is not a single Indian in Canada that has not been absorbed into the body politic and there is no Indian question…” — Duncan Campbell Scott, Deputy Superintendent General of...
Rebeka Tabobundung discusses feeding, nurturing, and motherhood. As a mother, feeding your child – providing life-sustaining nourishment, is one of the first teachings you share. As mothers that is our role; it’s why we have breasts, to feed and nurture our children. Faith Pegahmagabow, a traditional te...
Rebeka Tabobundung discusses her exploration of traditional birth and parenting knowledge. I had two experiences that I would describe as spiritual in the very early stages of my pregnancy in 2005. They occurred before I took a pregnancy test, about a week after conception. It was winter and I was about...
