I believe in midwifery and that restoring midwifery practices is one of the most important of all resurgence actions Indigenous ppl can take
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But this is scary. Women who are pregnant should not have to hide their pregnancies out of fear.
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With CFS in Winnipeg apprehending one newborn a day from mother’s arms in hospitals, is it any wonder women are not wanting medical care?
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I don’t know what the stats are for Indigenous newborn apprehensions for other provinces but I’d like to know.
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I heard of 1 apprehension where the new mom, dad &Grandma were at hospital w/ baby clothes & car seat when CFS took baby for “precaution”
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Only because the mom was a ward of CFS as a child. That was it. No legitimate reason at all. Precaution was the reason given.
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I heard of another exactly the same, where CFS worker showed up with carseat ready and the mom was crying, Grandma was crying (con’t)
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The worker got impatient tapping his foot saying hurry up to mom when she couldn’t get crying newborn into the car seat he brought with him
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I’ve heard of a Grandma who is a foster parent, when her daughter’s children were apprehended CFS refused to let her take the kids.
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Why is this happening to Indigenous people on this widespread scale? Some ppl will point to racism or say it began with residential schools.
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Those things are linked of course, as are the high rates of suicides in our communities & murdered and missing Indigenous people are linked.
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But it didn’t begin w/ residential schools. This began when our lands were coveted for resources &we were systematically displaced b/c of it
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We cannot look at suicides, MMIW2, incarceration rates, systemic racism, CFS, RS & intergenerational scoop effects in isolation
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The systemic dismantling of our own governances, the systemic dispossession from our lands for the resources is at the root of scoops.
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This is what some of the inquiries and commissions have not addressed. And this is why reconciliation can never be possible without land.
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Land, control, restoration of Indigenous governance, languages, and all that was stolen to fullness of what was lost.
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And a compounding tragedy to all of this is as climate rises, Indigenous knowledge of how to live on the land in balance is so badly needed.
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The good news in all of this? Indigenous people are rising up. We aren’t going to stand by and let another generation be stolen.
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And we haven’t lost our connection to land or the Earth or the knowledge of how to live in balance. Many carry that knowledge still.
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And Indigenous people have maintained our dignity, kindness, and our traditional ways despite it all.
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The intergenerational scoop must end.
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