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Why Modern Indigenous Parents Are Turning to Traditional Pregnancy Practices
By Chelsey Luger — 2020
Like many other First Nations and Native American parents of our generation across Canada and the USA, we are doing everything we can to reclaim culturally significant pregnancy and birthing practices.
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