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Indigenous milk medicine week 2025

Indigenous milk medicine week 2025

August 8–14, 2025 | Theme: “Unapologetically Indigenous: Love, Landback, and Liberation”

About the Week

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week and Conference (August 8–14, 2025) was a radiant celebration of community, healing, and visibility. We are deeply grateful to every participant, presenter, sponsor, host, and supporter who helped uplift this movement and create such a powerful space of love, landback, and liberation. So what’s next?

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Spirit Week

August 8-14th

Please feel free to join us in celebrating Indigenous Milk Medicine Week August 8-14. Here’s a list of ways you can participate —>

#IMMW2025

#IndigenousMilkMedicineWeek2025

#UnapologeticallyIndigenous

#LoveLandbackLiberation

Attire: Cultural wear, regalia, ribbon work, etc.- be YOU!
Action: Participate in the Annual Virtual 5K (RUN, WALK, MOVE) & Take a selfie. Post/ hashtag #LoveLandbackLiberation5K #IndigenousMilkMedicineWeek5K #IMMW2025
We remember. We reflect. We rise for every child — past, present, and future. Attire: Wear orange
Attire: Rock your mocs (if that’s your thing) and/or wear your IMMW T-shirt (or anything pro-lactation)
Action: Uplift Indigenous Two-Spirit voices, support their art and leadership, and reflect on how we make our spaces more inclusive, safe, and celebratory for all identities.
Attire: Wear beadwork or other Indigenous bling to represent! Action: Share your beading or creative projects related to IMMW
Action: Share your milk medicine journey, celebrate milestones, post a pic (optional). Don’t forget to tag and use our hashtags.

Meet Your Conference Hosts

We’re honored to welcome Camie Jae Goldhammer (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyaté) and Kimberly Moore-Salas (Diné/Navajo) as the hosts of this year’s Indigenous Milk Medicine Conference.

Camie Jae Goldhammer

(she/her) is a Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyaté Clinical Social Worker, IBCLC, Full Spectrum Indigenous Doula, and Founding Executive Director of Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services.

Kimberly Moore-Salas

(she/her) is a Dine’ woman born for Naakaii Diné and from Tsi’naajinii clans, with roots in Tolani Lake, Navajo Nation. She is an experienced IBCLC, business owner, and co-instructor of the Indigenous Lactation Counselor training program.

Together, Camie and Kim have trained over 800 Indigi-LCs across Turtle Island since 2017 and continue to lead with joy, cultural reclamation, and deep care for Indigenous families.

Meet the Presenters

Elizabeth Montez - ILC, IBCLC

She/her
Waganakising Odawa (Little Traverse Bay Band Odawa Indians)
Day 1- August 11
Session A: “Holding the Sacred in the Clinical”
Amanda Singer - CLC

She/her
Navajo
Day 1 - August 11
Co-presenting- Session B: “Hózhó Through Bodyfeeding: Language, Culture, and the Return to Navajo Milk Medicine”
Daili Lister - BSN, IBCLC

She/her
Navajo
Day 1 - August 11
Co-presenting- Session B: “Hózhó Through Bodyfeeding: Language, Culture, and the Return to Navajo Milk Medicine”
Yohualitztli - B.S, Doula, IBCLC

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CemAnahuac/Purepecha
Day 2 - August 12
Session A: “Pilmama: The Art of Carrying Close That Which is Most Precious”
Mee-Kai Spotted Horsechief

She/her
Pari, Ponka, Umonhon
Day 2 - August 12
Movement Session
Raeanne Madison

She/ her
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians
Day 2 - August 12
Session B: “Ancestor Diagnosed: Unmasking Neurodiversity in Indigenous Lactation and Early Postpartum”
Hope Nelis-Stone - TM, CBE, IBC Indigenous Birth Services

She/ her
Bad River
Day 3 - August 13
Co-presenting- Session A: “Importance of Traditional Birthing Practices”
Russell Stone - Cultural Director/Dad Doula Indigenous Birth Services

He/him
Bad River
Day 3 - August 13
Co-presenting- Session A: “Importance of Traditional Birthing Practices”
Haley Laughter

She/her
Navajo Nation representing the Bit'ahnii, Tódich'ii'nii, Dibéłzhíní, and Táchii'nii clans
Day 3 - August 13
Movement Session
Dr. Simone Sherriff

She/ her
Wotjobaluk (Indigenous Australian)
Day 3 - August 13
Session B: “Yalbilinya Miya (learn together) Breastfeeding Project: A Story of Reclaimed, Resistance and Empowerment”
Ziara Kyre York- CHD, CBS

She/her
Louisiana Creole - Mvskogee Creek Descendant
Day 4 - August 14
Session A: “First Food Sovereignty & The Reclamation of Matriarchal Ecosystems”
Raeanne Madison

She/her
Bois Forte Band of Chippewa Indians
Day 4 - August 14
Movement Session
Lindsey McGahey - IBC, IFSD, BE

She/ her
Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians
Day 4 - August 14
Session B: “First Foods, Fluid Identities: Parenting and Feeding 2-Spirit Futures”

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2025 Featured artist

Every year, the Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective seeks to highlight an Indigenous artist. We want to uplift and highlight Indigenous talent across Turtle Island and bring to life our theme for the annual Indigenous Milk Medicine Week.

This year’s featured artist is Soni Lopez-Chavez, a Chichimeca artist whose powerful work centers Indigenous identity, healing, and liberation.

Born in Cuitzeo de Abasolo, Guanajuato, Mexico, and raised in the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, Soni brings vibrant visual storytelling rooted in bicultural experience. Her digital illustrations challenge stereotypes, celebrate community, and uplift themes of sovereignty, mental health, and self-love.

This year’s artwork is inspired by the theme “Unapologetically Indigenous: Love, Landback, and Liberation.” It creatively reflects the powerful braid of our cultural, political, and spiritual realities.

Soni Lopez-Chavez

(Chichimeca)

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Follow and support Soni's work:

Instagram: @soni_artist
Website: https://soniartist.wixsite.com/soniartist

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More About the Theme:

This theme reflects the heart of IMMW — It celebrates the strength, connection, and healing that Milk Medicine brings through community care. From our Ancestors to future generations, Milk Medicine is a vital thread that holds us together.

Love:
Love is at the core of everything we do: the love that nurtures our children, families, and communities, and the deep kinship ties that bind us. In our communities, kinship reflects a mutual responsibility for our well-being, grounded in the understanding that we are all interconnected.

Landback:
Landback represents the reclamation of traditions and practices that have sustained us for generations. It reconnects us with the original teachers in the land and the four directions, and with one another through cultural sovereignty and healing practices rooted in our Ancestors' ways.

Liberation:
Liberation is the ongoing struggle for self-determination and the reclamation of our right to practice traditional birthkeeping and lactation, ensuring our people are free to live in health and balance.

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