Grantee Profile

Navajo Birthworkers Collective

az Created with Sketch. Window Rock, AZ

1 Grant
$30,000 Total Awarded
2025 Year

Awarded Grants

2025

Hózhó Through Bodyfeeding: Expanding Into First Foods, Maternal Health, and Healing

2025 Hózhó Through Bodyfeeding: Expanding Into First Foods, Maternal Health, and Healing

$30,000
Navajo Birthworkers Collective az Created with Sketch. Window Rock, AZ

Description

The project revitalizes Navajo bodyfeeding traditions to improve health, decrease maternal and infant mortality, and strengthen cultural identity. We leverage ancestral knowledge, language, and ceremony as living assets to promote wellness and balance across generations.