Kehewin Cree Nation brings traditional birthing back to community – CBC

May 11, 2025

Having kokums present to support parents and welcome baby was the ‘ultimate comfort,’ says new mom

For the first time in over 60 years, a baby was born on Kehewin Cree Nation last month thanks to a midwifery program that is the first of its kind in a First Nation in Alberta.

In the early hours of April 5, Maelan Simaganis-Tsatoke started to feel contractions, but she was in Edmonton, far from her home in Kehewin, 240 kilometres east of the city.

She decided to drive nearly three hours back to the First Nation.

Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/kehewin-birthing-midwifery-program-1.7523188

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