TTAWAXT BIRTH JUSTICE CENTER
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Mission Statement
Vision: Reclaiming culture, health care, and families to strengthen all indigenous generations. Mission: Reducing infant and maternal mortality by standing together and ensuring continuation of our Native people.
About This Cause
Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center The Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center, created and led by Native women, is a 501c3 non-profit organization serving families on the Yakama Nation Reservation. Birth Justice is present when indigenous people honor their ancestors and are supported in making the best decisions they can during pregnancy, labor, childbirth, and after the baby arrives to ensure the next generation continues. Our mission is to ensure birth justice and whole-family healing through indigenous practices, systems, and spaces that support the complete birth journey as well as child-rearing and grief recovery. We center the wisdom of indigenous women, as life-givers and protectors, and know our cultural practices are vital to the continuance of the next generation and the healing of all Native generations. We are carrying out our mission through the revitalization of indigenous matriarchal practices and systems and by creating safe, indigenous spaces where our families and communities can heal and thrive. Ttáwaxt Worldview & Vision Our Native traditions honor the interconnectedness of generations – from ancestors to newborns, life-givers, and elders – and the Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center is working to protect and revitalize this wisdom in our everyday lives and for broader systemic change. Our work is critical in this world where external systems of patriarchy, white supremacy, and colonization have worked for centuries to degrade and destroy our indigenous practices, systems, family structure, and lands. High rates of infant and maternal mortality in Native families are a direct outcome of these external forces. We believe our collective purpose through the Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center is in centering our indigenous ways of healing, life-giving, and sustaining our people. We envision a future in which our life-giving matriarchal indigenous practices, systems, and spaces are revitalized and support all Native families to heal and thrive across generations. What We Do Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center provides pregnancy and birth-related supports, care and advocacy on the Yakama Nation Reservation, in the state of Washington, and also in the hospital setting before the baby is born, during delivery, and after birth. We also provide practices including herbal consultation, creative circle, support groups, mentoring, breastfeeding support, and grief recovery. To provide safe and thorough services, many of our team members have undergone training and have the expertise as doulas and in data collection. Our services include: Pregnancy & Maternal Supports - Prenatal Care, Transportation, Reproductive Justice & Advocacy, Lactation & Breastfeeding support, Birth & Postpartum Doula, Home Visiting Family Supports - Creative Circle (Culture Focus), Perinatal Support Groups, Herbal Consultation, Grief Recovery, Baby Showers, Food Sovereignty Safe, Indigenous Spaces Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center is creating and protecting safe indigenous spaces in multiple realms. This includes the strong community and trust we’ve built by delivering supports and resources to our families, which also informs our advocacy when engaging with non-indigenous medical and hospital systems, for example. We cannot physically touch these types of indigenous spaces, but they are the connection, the glue, that strengthens and gives momentum to our work. We have also created a physical space on the Yakama Nation Reservation, where we offer support services, before, during, and after pregnancy, as well as hold creative circles, support groups, and consultations. Broadening Our Reach Our vision for Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center includes the opening of a birth center on the Yakama Nation Reservation – an essential indigenous space – where women can give birth and families can receive a full range of maternal, child, and family supports and indigenous cultural practices throughout their full birth journey and beyond. This center would also have gardens to support food sovereignty, as well as a sweat lodge and other spaces for ceremonies. We are also exploring ways to hire and certify indigenous women to provide home births, which is a service desired by our families, is safe with proper training and supplies and is in keeping with our work of revitalizing indigenous matriarchal practices and systems.