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WHAT IS INDIGENOUS MOTHERHOOD?

“Indigenous based child-rearing in today’s generation resides in watching the restoration of unfaltering kinship practices in our Indigenous kinship systems.

It comes with our families, communities, and nations making the commitment to do the work we need to do in order to create a healthy, and liberated, legacy for coming generations.”

Indigenous peoples, their families, communities, and nations have been targeted by colonialism for far too long. From colonization, residential schools, the 60’s scoop, the child welfare system, and every other means of destroying healthy Indigenous families, it is time to focus on methods of healing from the grief and trauma of these processes.

“Go-to” survival mechanisms, unhealthy family dynamics, and toxic behaviours and beliefs are further impacting Indigenous peoples, their families, communities, and nations. It is these mechanisms, dynamics, behaviours, and beliefs that are continuing the deeply embedded trauma cycles.

Doing the work, and committing to the work, has ultimately shifted many traumas, unhealthy dynamics, and toxic intergenerational behaviours, within my own life. It is a daily practice, and with the tools, the practice has been monumental and instrumental in designing a life of Indigenous truth, healing, and well-being.

It is imperative that we, as Indigenous peoples, and our families, learn, and practice, tools and models that will prepare for healthy outcomes in high-stress situations and circumstances of potential trauma. In order to break these cycles, families, communities, and nations, have the opportunity to commit to healing themselves from the inside out.

More information on the workshops are made available are under the Programs tab.

Looking forward to diving deep into the healing of ourselves, our families, our communities, and our nation, collectively.

Andrea Landry is a lifeskills coach through Red Echo Associates and can currently run a variety of programs in the areas of parenting, health and wellness, social justice, colonialism, Indigenous kinship, grief and recovery, trauma, and other topics.  She is originally from Northwestern Ontario from a small community called Pays Plat First Nation but currently resides on Treaty 6 Territory on Poundmaker Cree Nation in Saskatchewan, Canada. She teaches for the Indigenous Social Work program for First Nations University, and has also done therapist work for schools on reserve. She holds a Masters in Communications and Social Justice from the University of Windsor, with a degree in Child and Youth Care and a diploma in Social Work from Vancouver Island University. She is a mother, an Indigenous rights defender, a freelance writer, blogger, and strives to provide individuals, families, and communities with the tools they need in order to create change for themselves.