Native Breastfeeding Week - with founder Jasha Lyons Echo-Hawk

Read the article on Why We Need A Native Breastfeeding Week here: https://www.kindredmedia.org/2020/08/a-closer-look-at-native-breastfeeding-week/ Native Breastfeeding Week is August 9-15, and is being celebrated for its second year. Listen to the founder share her story of realizing why a Native Breastfeeding Week and movement are needed, and how she is working with her community to create ceremonies and rituals to honor and heal families. Breastfeeding, as a "First Medicine," is considered vital to this decolonization practice. "Native Breastfeeding is an act of defiance to the colonial systems and their imposed “norms” as well as a resilience of culture and body sovereignty, no matter the length of your experience. In decolonizing practices of motherhood such as breastfeeding, we can promote food sovereignty, body sovereignty, and the healing of the next generation. In decolonizing feeding practices, we follow the needs of our children." JASHA LYONS ECHO-HAWK