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Resources

and reference materials

Below you will find resources for Alaska or Indigenous Birthing and Reproductive Health, Childbirth & General Information, and Resources for Healthcare Workers & Providers.

Organizations

Alaska Native Birthworkers Community

Center for Indigenous Midwifery (Washington)

National Aboriginal Council of Midwives (Canada)

Changing Woman Initiative

Mewinzha Ondaadiziike Wiigaming​

Alaska Birth Collective Provider Guide​

Postpartum Support International Alaska Chapter

Data for Indigenous Justice

I Know Mine Youth Wellness and Sexual Health Resources

Native Youth Sexual Health Network

Identity Alaska

National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center

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Digital Resources

Hō Mai Ka Pono Moon Cycle Tracking

Urban Indian Health Institute Wild Spring Greens

Urban Indian Health Institute Immune & Respiratory Herbs

NACM Stories and Teachings about Pregnancy, Birth and Infant Care

Native Movement  Untangling Colonialism - Decolonizing Advocacy ​

Alaska Native Epidemiology Center Maternal Child Health Data

Frontier Nursing University Free Introduction to Cultural Safety Continuing Education Course

Indigenous Birth Knowledge and Stories for My Baby Journal

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Books

Red Medicine: Traditional Rites of Birthing and Healing 

Patrisia Gonzales

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Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century

Brianna Theobald

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Indigenous Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth

edited by Hannah Tait Neufeld and Jaime Cidro

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Mothers of the Nations: Indigenous Mothering as Global Resistance, Reclaiming, and Recovery

edited by D. Meme Lavell-Harvard and Kim Anderson

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We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms & the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies

Cutcha Risling Baldy

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Making Space for Indigenous Feminism

edited by Joyce Green

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Indigenous Women and Feminism: Politics, Activism, Culture

edited by Cheryl Suzack, Shari Huhndorf, Jeanne Perreault, Jean Barman

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Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

edited by Joanne Barker

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Birth and Rebirth on an Alaskan Island: the life of an Alutiiq Healer

by Joanne Mulcahy

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Grandmothers Council the World

by Carol Schaefer, Pg. 43 Rita Pitka Blumenstein

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Into These Hands: Wisdom from Midwives

edited by Geraldine Simkins, Pg. 79 Katsi Cook

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Other BIPOC Resources

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Resmaa Menakem (2017)

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Delivered by Midwives: African American Midwifery in the Twentieth-Century South 1st Edition

Jenny M. Luke (2018)

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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Dorothy Roberts (2016 or later)

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Black Fatherhood: Trials & Tribulations, Testimony & Triumph

Khalid Akil White (2016)

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The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding

Kimberly Seals Allers (2017)

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Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race, and Injustice

Andrea Freeman (2019)

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How to be an Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi (2019)

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So You Want to Talk About Race

Ijeoma Oluo (2019)

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What Does It Mean To Be White, Developing White Racial Literacy (the Revised Edition)

Robin DiAngelo (2016) 

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Shafia Monroe Consulting Full Circle Doula Reading List

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