Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective

Honoring, uplifting, and protecting Indigenous Milk Medicine across our communities.

Indigenous Milk Medicine Week 2026 is coming August 8–14.

This year, we gather around the theme We Keep the Fires Lit: Rising Through Milk Medicine — honoring the brilliance, continuity, and cultural strength carried through Indigenous lactation and community care.’

Programming agenda now available.

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Deadline: Order by August 15

This year we have some fun styles, so get your IMMW swag while you can!

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2026 Featured artist:

Julianne Denny

This year’s featured artist for Indigenous Milk Medicine Week 2026 is Julianne Denny (Cree, Ojibway, Mi’kmaq). She is a multidisciplinary Indigenous artist, birthworker, lactation counselor, and cultural practitioner from the Rocky Boy community. Her artwork for IMMW 2026 honors continuity, kinship, and the strength carried through Indigenous Milk Medicine to keep the fires lit.

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Early Bird Registration is OPEN and EXTENDED!

Join us for the "Gathering for Indigenous Milk Medicine" in-person event!

Dates:

  • November 8, 2026

    Pre-event programming, 5-8 pm

  • November 9-11, 2026

    Gathering dates, 8 am - 5 pm/ 8 am - 12:30 pm (last day)

Location:

  • OKANA Resort & Indoor Waterpark -- Oklahoma City, OK

  • The Gathering will feature a special beading presentation, educational sessions (plenary style), Native Market, Daily breakfast and Lunch.

Gathering for Indigenous Milk Medicine Registration

Price:

$200 for early bird registration until August 21, 11:59 pm PT.

After this date, it will increase to $250.

Price is per attendee (Includes meals, sessions and activities). Does not include travel/ lodging.

Priority registration is reserved for Indigenous relatives.

BIPOC guests are absolutely invited and welcomed and will be added to our priority waitlist and offered registration as space allows.

NOTE: This will be a two-step process—first, submit your request to attend. After the early bird registration period ends, you will receive a follow-up email containing a link for payment if you meet admission requirements.

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About IMMC

Nourishing Traditions, Empowering Communities


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

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the knowledge, relationship, and responsibility we carry to nourish our babies, our families, and our future generations. It is cultural memory, healing, and the continuation of who we are.

Indigenous Milk Medicine is…

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

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

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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