Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective

Honoring, uplifting, and protecting Indigenous Milk Medicine across our communities.

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week 2026 is coming August 8–14.

This year, we gather around the theme We Keep the Fires Lit: Rising Through Milk Medicine — honoring the brilliance, continuity, and cultural strength carried through Indigenous lactation and community care.’

Programming agenda coming soon — stay tuned for updates, speaker announcements, and community offerings.

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Support the Annual T-shirt Fundraiser

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Consider supporting Indigenous Milk Medicine programming and help us keep our offerings free and accessible to all.

Early Bird Batch: Order by June 16

Main Batch: Order by July 18 to receive your shirt in time for IMMW.

This year we have some fun styles, so get your IMMW swag while you can!

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Featured artist

This year’s featured artist for Indigenous Milk Medicine Week 2026 is Julianne Denny (Cree, Ojibway, Mi’kmaq). She is a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist, birthworker, lactation counselor, and cultural practitioner from the Rocky Boy community. Her artwork for IMMW 2026 honors continuity, kinship, and the strength carried through Indigenous Milk Medicine to keep the fires lit.

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About IMMC

Nourishing Traditions, Empowering Communities


We are a grassroots, Indigenous-led collective uplifting Milk Medicine through ceremony, story, sovereignty, and love.

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the knowledge, relationship, and responsibility we carry to nourish our babies, our families, and our future generations. It is cultural memory, healing, and the continuation of who we are.

Indigenous Milk Medicine is…

“It’s not just milk. It’s the four directions coming together to make a greater connection.”

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— Kimberly Moore-Salas (Diné) Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective, IBCLC

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Community voices

  • “My mom is involved in birthwork and chestfeeding education. I am an environmental justice activist. To us, Indigenous Milk Medicine means seizing the means of food production and reclaiming power.”

    - IMMW Participant

  • “I am a community doula and also research field staff conducting home assessments for our birthing participants. Indigenous Milk Medicine means uplifting, recognizing, and reclaiming our sovereignty to exist in the ways of our ancestors and elders.”

    - Supporter

  • “Thank you so much for this important work and message. As a mother, it makes me so much more hopeful for my children and future generations that these conversations are happening.”

    - IMMW Participant

  • “It is not just milk it is the four directions that come together to make a greater connection. Others only think of lactation, but we see the whole story.”

    - Kim Moore-Salas- IMMC Member