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In traditional Inuit birth culture, the birth event was handled almost exclusively by the midwife. [29] However, the woman played an active role in her own birth experience and was encouraged to follow her body's own physiologic cues regarding pushing and rest. [ 29 ]
Throughout the 1970s, Inuit activists and organizers placed great focus on territorial autonomy and land rights issues. While organizations like Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK, formerly the Eskimo Brotherhood of Canada) [5] started to bring greater attention to preservation of Inuit culture and Indigenous rights, Inuit women felt that their daily struggles and issues which most directly impacted ...
Parks Canada credited Attagutsiak with being "instrumental in helping establish the Akausivik Inuit Family Health Team - Medical Centre in Ottawa" in her capacity as a midwife. [2] She also contributed to academic studies of health promotion, and the use of technology to improve health outcomes, among Inuit living in cities. [10] [11]
The Inuit Circumpolar Council is a United Nations-recognized non-governmental organization (NGO), which defines its constituency as Canada's Inuit and Inuvialuit, Greenland's Kalaallit Inuit, Alaska's Inupiat and Yup'ik, and Russia's Siberian Yupik, [178] despite the last two neither speaking an Inuit dialect [69] or considering themselves "Inuit".
Della Keats' autobiography skips from her early years, 1907-1918, to her adult life, 1930s-1940s. [1] According to the editors of her autobiography, she had married a reindeer herder when she was 16 but was the sole parent and provider of three children in her 20s—Perry, Priscilla, and Sylvester—who ranged in age from 3-9 in 1943.
The Inuit are an indigenous people of the Arctic and subarctic regions of North America (parts of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland).The ancestors of the present-day Inuit are culturally related to Iñupiat (northern Alaska), and Yupik (Siberia and western Alaska), [1] and the Aleut who live in the Aleutian Islands of Siberia and Alaska.
In Inuit culture, sipiniq (Inuktitut: ᓯᐱᓂᖅ; West Greenland Inuttut: sipineq, from sipi meaning "to split", plural sipiniit) [1] [2] refers to a person who is believed to have changed their physical sex as an infant, but whose gender is typically designated as being the same as their perceived original sex. [3]
Midwifery is the health science and health profession that deals with pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period (including care of the newborn), ...