Indigenous Experiences of Preguancy and Birth

241 Pages·2018·6.071 MB·English

by  Neufield Hannah Tait

Demeter Press
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Book Title: Indigenous Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth
Book Editor(s): Hannah Tait Neufeld and Jaime Cidro
Published by: Demeter Press
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Indigenous experiences of pregnancy and birth / Hannah Tait Neufeld
and Jaime Cidro, editors.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-77258-135-5 (softcover)
1. Pregnancy--Canada. 2. Childbirth--Canada. 3. Motherhood--Canada.
4. Birth customs--Canada. 5. Native women--Canada--Social life and customs.
6. Pregnant women--Canada--Social life and customs. 7. Native women--
Canada--Social conditions. 8. Traditional medicine--Canada. I. Tait Neufeld,
Hannah, 1968-, editor II. Cidro, Jaime, editor
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Indigenous Experiences
of Pregnancy and Birth
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Hannah Tait Neufeld and Jaime Cidro
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This book is dedicated to the Indigenous women
who have shared their stories of pregnancy and birth,
along with those who are not yet able to speak of
their accounts of love and loss. Thank you for your strength
amid all you have experienced.
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Book Title: Indigenous Experiences of Pregnancy and Birth
Book Editor(s): Hannah Tait Neufeld, Jaime Cidro
Published by: Demeter Press. (2017)
Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1vw0sbs.2

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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Foreword
Kim Anderson
xi
Introduction
Jaime Cidro and Hannah Tait Neufeld
1

part one: pregnancy
Chapter One
Indigenous Pregnancy, Birthing, and
Mothering in Colonial Canada
Sana Z. Shahram
13
Chapter Two
“It’s in Her Health”: Historical Retrospective of
Generational Changes in Maternal Diets
from Peguis, First Nation
Hannah Tait Neufeld
30
vii
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