I am a Dakota and Yaqui Pediatric Resident-Physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. In 2024, I graduated from Harvard Medical School. Prior to medical school, I completed my Master of Public Health on a Fulbright Scholarship, was an acting-clerk for the Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.
Indigenous Nations have long understood the importance of nurturing a child's physical, mental, cultural and spiritual health from the very beginning of life. Take my own people, the Dakota Nation, for example. Centuries before the founding of the United States, Dakota babies had access to these vital elements of well-being.Dakota babies were born to mothers who consumed food directly from the earth or through hunting animals.
Indigenous families have the power to reclaim these practices for our children today, allowing them to experience their first days on earth the way our ancestors intended. When we bring these traditions to our children’s early lives, we remind them who they are, long before the outside world shapes them.
These traditions, which colonization tried to eradicate, have been—and still can be—a profound gift to our children. They ground them in identity and give them the tools to become compassionate and healthy adults.
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