Diabetes Prevention and Culture Revitalization through Breastfeeding and Chestfeeding

1. Ancestral teaching relays that when a mother breastfeeds her baby she is giving her child her name, her story, and her life’s song.

a) True
b) False

2. Milksharing is the sharing of human milk and is defined as one mother breastfeeding the baby of another.

a) True
b) False

3. Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding is connected to culture, family, environment and a safe place.

a) True
b) False

4. The following are historical events that impacted lactation among Navajo People:

a) 1864 The Long Walk
b) Manifest Destiny
c) Residential/Boarding schools
d) Forced adoption of Indigenous children
e) All of the above

5. Historical trauma has resulted in loss of traditional foods and medicines, along with cultural and spiritual practices surrounding pregnancy, birth, and lactation.

a) True
b) False

6. Healing from generational trauma involves understanding the role of cultural teachings and cultural healing practices that can help navigate overall health and wellness.

a) True
b) False

7. Intergenerational trauma can influence a patient’s susceptibility to disease, including diabetes, due to the social determinants involved around it.

a) True
b) False

8. Which of the following are considered objectives of the Navajo Breastfeeding Coalition:

a) To educate Indigenous birthing families about informed choices/consent.
b) To promote and increase public acceptance of the benefits of human milk, and traditional birth work.
c) To educate health care providers about human milk and birthwork on its benefit towards decreasing maternal and infant mortality rates.
d) All of the above

9. We cannot have food sovereignty without breastfeeding.

a) True
b) False