Indigenous experiences of pregnancy and birth / edited by Hannah Tait Neufeld and Jaime Cidro.

Bradford, Ontario : Demeter Press, 2017.

xvi, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Acknowledgements -- Foreword / Kim Anderson -- Introduction / Jaime Cidro and Hannah Tait Neufeld -- Part one: Pregnancy -- Indigenous pregnancy, birthing, and mothering in colonial Canada / Sana Z. Shahram -- "It's in her health": historical retrospective of generational changes in maternal diets from Peguis, First Nation / Hannah Tait Neufeld -- Culture, identity, and spirituality in American Indians and Native People of Alaska Pregnancy Campaigns / Terry L. Rentner, Dinah A. Tetteh, and Lynda Dixon -- Part two: Birth -- Bored, broke, and alone: experiences of pregnant and expectant First Nations mothers birthing in and out of the community / Jaime Cidro, Elisabeth Dolin, and Christina Queskekapow -- Bearing witness: rural Indigenous women's experiences of childbirth in an urban hospital / Rachel Olson -- Honouring our ancestors: reclaiming the power of Māori Maternities / Naomi Simmonds -- Revitalizing traditional Indigenous birth knowledge / Rebeka Tabobondung -- Birth places, embodied spaces: Tlicho pregnancy stories across the generations / Leslie Dawson -- Maternal identity in family and community: mothers of the Stó:lō First Nation / Margaret MacDonald -- Indigenous birth in Canada: reconciliation and reproductive justice in the Settler State / Erika Finestone and Cynthia Stirbys.