The Gift for Bringing in New Life with Takayla Lightfield

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine · Dec 30, 2020 · 28m

This week we are happy to revisit our conversation with Lakota doula Takayla Lightfield (Mnicoujou Lakota, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota), in this “Best of Native Lights” episode. Takayla stands side-by-side with Native women supporting the birth of the next generation as a doula, and as a breastfeeding consultant. Takayla is now working on her Master’s Degree in Public Health, in the U of M’s Maternal and Child Health Advanced-Standing Program. In 2020, Takayla Lightfield was honored with a Tribal Trailblazer Award, from the United States Breastfeeding Committee (USBC), which…