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Governance, Essay

Reclaiming Birth Sovereignty

Maymangwa Flying Earth & Nīa MacKnight

Nov 14, 2024

The United States is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis at staggering rates, especially for Indigenous people. A collaboration between reproductive justice advocate Maymangwa Flying Earth and photographer Nīa MacKnight, the following essay highlights different strategies, including birthing centers and individual practices that provide community-care models in which midwives honor the ceremony of birth through compassion, patience, and holistic care.

Governance, Q&A

‘Our way of life doesn't mean anything to them’: A Q&A on cultural resistance in Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ Nation

Aaron Fernando

Oct 23, 2024

In the face of attacks by the U.S.-backed Clint Halftown government, three members of Gayogo̱hó:nǫ’ Nation use places of cultural and language learning to resist in their community.