Returning the Sacred to the Sacred

Episode 2 of In Our Power features Kailea Frederick, from the NDN Collective Climate Justice team in conversation with Lena Jacobs and Margaret David, two of the co-founders of the Alaska Native Birthworkers Community. The Alaska Native Birthworkers are a group made up of volunteer Alaska Native reproductive justice advocates, organizing to reclaim Indigenous birth practices and support families from preconception through postpartum with culturally-matched care. As it so powerfully states on their website, this work is about creating, ‘sovereignty from the first breath.