Join the Alliance and Returning Light consulting in a webinar where we’ll learn more about the ways Native communities have always understood childhood—as inherently relational, community-centered, and rooted in place. We’ll explore kinship systems where children are raised by many, the connection between land and early learning, and contemporary examples of cultural transmission and community-driven care models.
Join us on Wednesday, Jan. 28 at 3 p.m. ET/Noon PT for Native Early Childhood Frameworks: Traditional Child-Rearing Practices, Kinship Systems, and Community Care.
Building on our foundational exploration of sovereignty and history, this session centers how Native communities have always understood childhood—as inherently relational, community-centered, and rooted in place. We’ll explore kinship systems where children are raised by many, the connection between land and early learning, and contemporary examples of cultural transmission and community-driven care models.
Participants will gain insight into Indigenous approaches to child development and family support, and consider how these frameworks can inform more culturally grounded partnerships in early childhood systems.
This webinar is the second in the Alliance’s Native Communities Learning Project: We Are Still Here webinar series led by Returning Light Consulting and an advisory committee of Alliance allies with Native heritage.
Save the date for our future We Are Still Here webinars, all at 3 p.m. ET/Noon PT (topics subject to change)
- February 25: The Deliberate Breakdown of Indigenous Families: Policies, Impacts & Pathways to Repair
- March 25: Contemporary Native Realities
- April 29: Cultural Humility and Power Dynamics
- May 27: Communication and Collaboration
- June 24: Moving from Ally to Accomplice
- July 22: Applying Learning to Practice