“It’s not just milk. It’s the four directions coming together to make a greater connection.”

— Kimberly Moore-Salas (Diné) Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective, IBCLC

Unapologetically

Indigenous

Love • Landback • Liberation

Registration now open — 

Indigenous Milk Medicine Conference 2025

Join us August 11–14 for virtual education sessions filled with learning, celebration, and ceremony—rooted in love, landback, and liberation during Indigenous Milk Medicine Week 2025.

About IMMC

Nourishing Traditions, Empowering Communities


We are a grassroots, Indigenous-led collective uplifting Milk Medicine through ceremony, story, sovereignty, and love.

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week Highlights

Save the dates: Celebrate with us 7 years with us!

Calling all Indigenous birthworkers, lactation advocates, healthcare professionals, community members, and lactating relatives seeking knowledge and connection — you're invited to join us.

Check out what’s in store for this year’s Indigenous Milk Medicine Week celebration, taking place August 8–14, 2025 — a celebratory week of learning, ceremony, and community rooted in love, landback, and liberation.

All events are FREE and VIRTUAL.

UNTIL IMMW 2025

  • Daily Sunrise Ceremonies

  • Annual T-shirt Fundraiser

  • Kick Off Celebration Session

  • Virtual 5K & Movement Sessions

  • Annual Indigenous Lactation Counselor Awards

  • Indigenous Milk Medicine Conference 2025: Aug 11–14, 2–5 PM ET - Virtual Education Sessions

  • Daily Social Media Engagement

  • Spirit Days, Story and Resource Sharing

  • Featured Artist 2025: Soni Lopez-Chavez (Chichimeca)

Follow us on social media for updates on IMMW 2025 and virtual engagement.

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Community voices

  • “My mom is involved in birthwork and chestfeeding education. I am an environmental justice activist. To us, Indigenous Milk Medicine means seizing the means of food production and reclaiming power.”

    IMMW Participant

  • “I am a community doula and also research field staff conducting home assessments for our birthing participants. Indigenous Milk Medicine means uplifting, recognizing, and reclaiming our sovereignty to exist in the ways of our ancestors and elders.”

    Supporter

  • “Thank you so much for this important work and message. As a mother, it makes me so much more hopeful for my children and future generations that these conversations are happening.”

    IMMW Participant

  • “It is not just milk it is the four directions that come together to make a greater connection. Others only think of lactation, but we see the whole story.”

    (Kim Moore-Salas- IMMC Member)