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    • Join USBC
    • Membership FAQs
    • Membership Categories
    • Membership Fee Schedules
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    • Creating Space Scholarship
  • Policy & Actions
    • Federal Appropriations for Breastfeeding
    • Federal Policies, Programs, & Initiatives
    • PUMP Act >
      • The PUMP Act Explained
    • Take Action
    • Letters & Public Comments
  • Resources
    • USBC Directories >
      • USBC Member Directory
      • Affiliated Coalitions Directory
      • Equity Champions Directory
    • Constellation Developed Resources
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    • Infant Formula Recall and Shortage
    • Lactation Support Provider Training Directory >
      • Lactation Support Providers Pathways
    • Learning Opportunities
    • Monthly Observances >
      • Black History Month
      • Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
      • LGBTQIA+ Resources and Pride Month
      • National Breastfeeding Month
      • Hispanic Heritage Month
      • Native American Heritage Month
      • Safe Sleep and SIDS Awareness Month
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    • Constellation Work Groups >
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November is Native American Heritage Month

Native American Heritage Month recognizes the histories and continuing invaluable contributions of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian people in the United States. This month honors the rich diversity of American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian cultures, traditions, and languages, and it focuses on how heritage intersects with health. By working together to raise awareness of health disparities and providing a platform for national American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian health organizations to discuss challenges and opportunities, we can all help move communities toward health equity.

Organizations, Resources, Tools, and Materials

  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
    • Celebrate Native American Heritage Month
  • Coalition on Human Needs
    • Voices for Human Needs blog
      • Generation Indigenous 
  • Indian Health Service
    • Breastfeeding Toolkit
  • National Institute for Children's Health Quality
    • Historic Trauma is Affecting Tomorrow's Children
      • When Indigenous people were dispossessed from their land, they not only lost their homes but were separated from their way of life. And in many cases, children were forcefully taken from their families. How does breastfeeding and safe sleep practices fit within the context of this historical trauma?  Here, two Native American health professionals offer advice.
  • National Native American Heritage Month
    • Created by: The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Museum of the American Indian, and National Park Service
  •  U.S. Breastfeeding Committee
    • Native Breastfeeding Week is Over, But the Work Continues
  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health 
    • Native American Heritage Month - November 
    • 2018 National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month Observance
  • U.S. Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs
    • National Native American Heritage Month - 2019
  • Wisconsin Association of Perinatal Care
    • Safe Sleep and Breastfeeding
Organizations Focused on Indigenous Breastfeeding:
  • Indigenous Breastfeeding Counselor
  • Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective
  • Indigenous Women Rising
  • Native American Breastfeeding Coalition of Washington
  • Native Breastfeeding Coalition of Wisconsin
  • Oregon Inter-Tribal-Breastfeeding Coalition
  • Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Breastfeeding Coalition
Webinar Spotlight from USBC
Building a Breastfeeding Support Program within the Ho-Chunk Nation Community - Shawn Meyer, RN WI State MCH and Allie Isaacson, RN, MCH, Ho-Chunk Nation
  • This webinar presentation provided a history of the Ho-Chunk Nation and explored the coalition-building strategies used within this community to build a breastfeeding support program. 
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