OMC - Onkwehonwe Midwives Collective

01/07/2026

We are still taking registrations for our 7-week Early Child Development Classes. You can find out more info on how to register in the main post. Open to all prenatal Akwesasró:non and those with children up to the age of 24 months, or those with partners from Akwesasne!

Starting Tuesday January 13th, we will be hosting our Family Spirit Program Childhood Development 7-week program via Zoom, on Tuesdays at 7:30pm.

The program will go for 7 weeks until February 24th and those who attend will receive a $25CAD e-transfer for each class they attend. They will also receive a $20 USD e-giftcard from Family Spirit for consenting to participate in evaluating the Family Spirit materials.

We will open registration for the Zoom sessions on Monday the 5th and is open to Akwesasne community members who are currently pregnant and those with little ones up to 24 months old.

To register:
1. Click the link to our booking site (The JaneApp) here:
https://onkwehonwemidwives.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/4/treatment/12

2. Click on the Tuesday at 7:30 time slot and reserve your spot.

3.Register for an account if you haven't already. If you are a previous client with an account, it will expedite the process a little more.

4. Be sure to complete the Intake Form once your appointment is booked. If you do not complete the Intake Form, we will not be able to send you the Zoom link to the class or rewards.

5. There will be 2 consent forms sent to your email from our Program Assistance once you have completed the Intake Forms. Please sign those and email them back to us and we can get you all set up with the Zoom Links for Tuesday's class.

From the Family Spirit site:
"The Family Spirit Program is an evidence-based and culturally tailored home visiting intervention delivered by Native American paraprofessionals as an Indigenous solution to supporting caregivers during pregnancy and early childhood. Caregivers gain knowledge and skills to achieve optimum development for their children across the domains of physical, cognitive, social-emotional, language learning, and self-help."

01/07/2026

Little did we know that our Group Childhood Development Class Registration would turn into a social experiment as to how far Non-Native people will go to say they're from Akwesasne just to receive a $25 honorarium for participating. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

We wish we could share some of the names with yall because that's been HILARIOUS! All we can say is that we know the rez, - that's that culturally safety thing and knowing/being from your community thing that we're always talkin about!

We're always advocating for Indigenous Midwifery and our Indigenous communities and talking about how bad Pretendianism is. It's literally identity fraud at the base, and it can lead to even worse types of fraud. There's a clout behind being Indigenous, and the stakes get higher when there is financial restitution and equity measures involved. These people are devoid of shame, taking from Indigenous peoples who have already endured so much.

These people are out here trying to fraud us out of a comparatively small amount, and we're handling it, but what does that say about these types of people when it comes to much larger amounts, like government funding for Indigenous projects, government contracts, speaking opportunities, scholarships, Indigenous-allocated job positions?

We're still going to keep on advocating, because we're just little rez kids who had to grow up strong and nobody is going to do it for us 🤷‍♀️. It's always been a for us, by us game, and we're ready to handle that. We're always trying to explain that to outsiders - we don't have the same opportunity to just go to school, put in the work, grow up, and like...live, all within a system designed for us. We have to advocate, deliberate, and even sometimes capitulate, but we like HAVE to do it to ensure whats best of our people.

01/06/2026

🥰So grateful that we were able to welcome our first homebirth baby of the year under our Gradmother Moon 🐺🌕

01/06/2026

Dear scammers...we're not even going to tell you where you went wrong with this because we're not going to let you have a second chance to be sneaky-sneaks, but for Akwesasro:non, here's a good laugh....

01/05/2026

Starting Tuesday January 13th, we will be hosting our Family Spirit Program Childhood Development 7-week program via Zoom, on Tuesdays at 7:30pm.

The program will go for 7 weeks until February 24th and those who attend will receive a $25CAD e-transfer for each class they attend. They will also receive a $20 USD e-giftcard from Family Spirit for consenting to participate in evaluating the Family Spirit materials.

We will open registration for the Zoom sessions on Monday the 5th and is open to Akwesasne community members who are currently pregnant and those with little ones up to 24 months old.

To register:
1. Click the link to our booking site (The JaneApp) here:
https://onkwehonwemidwives.janeapp.com/ #/staff_member/4/treatment/12

2. Click on the Tuesday at 7:30 time slot and reserve your spot.

3.Register for an account if you haven't already. If you are a previous client with an account, it will expedite the process a little more.

4. Be sure to complete the Intake Form once your appointment is booked. If you do not complete the Intake Form, we will not be able to send you the Zoom link to the class or rewards.

5. There will be 2 consent forms sent to your email from our Program Assistance once you have completed the Intake Forms. Please sign those and email them back to us and we can get you all set up with the Zoom Links for Tuesday's class.

From the Family Spirit site:
"The Family Spirit Program is an evidence-based and culturally tailored home visiting intervention delivered by Native American paraprofessionals as an Indigenous solution to supporting caregivers during pregnancy and early childhood. Caregivers gain knowledge and skills to achieve optimum development for their children across the domains of physical, cognitive, social-emotional, language learning, and self-help."

01/02/2026

If you subscribe to our newsletter, you might have already seen this, but starting Tuesday January 13th, we will be hosting our Family Spirit Program Childhood Development 7-week program via Zoom, Tuesday at 7:30pm.

The program will go for 7 weeks until mid-February and those who attend will receive a $25CAD e-transfer for each class they attend.

We will open registration for the Zoom sessions on Monday the 5th and is open to Akwesasne community members who are currently pregnant and those with little ones up to 24 months old.

From the Family Spirit site:
"The Family Spirit Program is an evidence-based and culturally tailored home visiting intervention delivered by Native American paraprofessionals as an Indigenous solution to supporting caregivers during pregnancy and early childhood. Caregivers gain knowledge and skills to achieve optimum development for their children across the domains of physical, cognitive, social-emotional, language learning, and self-help."

Our friends at Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health Family Spirit program have also offered a great opportunity on top of these classes. For those who register with them to track their journey, those people will receive a $20 USD e-gift card from them and if those who continue to track their journey with them at 12 and 18 months post-course, will receive another e-gift card. Pretty great if you ask us!

12/29/2025

12/23/2025

“Oh its JUST soil” Nah, that’s our Mother Earth right there. That’s our land, our history. It grows our food, it feeds our animal relatives. Its supposed to help cleanse our waters. Its the recycled matter of all the plants, people, water, ALL LIFE…all the way back to the beginning of our world. It’s undisputed what the factories did to our area, without care for the earth and the people who live on it. Just soil? We think you meant just our soul.

12/22/2025

Hear us out: a show about an Indigenous Auntie as a PI/detective, she walks a little weird cuz she was hit by a drunk driver early one morning coming from a man’s house. Her mysterious dark secret is that she wears prosthetic feet to hide the hooves (which gets discovered in Season 2 btw) and she has secret people (of a smaller stature/mystical nature) bring her evidence to use but her fellow people of the law are just amazed by her ability to find stuff. Here’s the catch, when someone puts out a spirit plate to find their missing stuff, some of the evidence goes missing. There could be a whole episode dedicated to that.

There could even be a whole fight on a spiritual plane where St. Anthony and the Little People are fighting over items to keep and send back.

Just a suggestion, ya saw it here first. 🤣😅

12/22/2025

Indigenous Midwifery is no LESS than Registered Midwifery, it’s quite literally MORE than, and it HAS TO BE. There’s no shortcuts when its OUR OWN PEOPLE that we are safeguarding.

12/19/2025

Hey there friends! Did you previously complete the health survey component of our research study and want to get the soil and water sampled on your property?

We will be contacting those who have previously expressed interest in the soil and water sampling utilizing the emails provided, so keep a look out for an email from our program assistant today. (Pssst, sometimes it will go to your spam folder!)

If you have previously completed the health survey but did not say you were interested in the soil/water sampling, but have changed your mind, shoot us an email at assist@onkwehonwemidwives.com !

****We will be taking 20 interested participants and prioritizing those who live by or have access to rivers/water sources and those who own/have permission to collect soil samples from their properties.

Niawenko:wa 💙🩵