Mortified about menstruation? Some Indigenous youth learn to celebrate it instead – CBC

Mar 25, 2025

Honouring moon time teaches youth self-confidence, says elder

The spring equinox has just passed, but Cutcha Risling Baldy’s summer schedule is already looking jam-packed, as youth from her Hupa community prepare to celebrate something their tween peers may be apprehensive about or even avoid discussing: their first period.

Risling Baldy has helped foster the resurgence of the Hupa Flower Dance, a ceremony honouring the start of menstruation. Her daughter, who took part a few years ago, belongs to a new generation openly talking about and thinking of menstruation in a positive light.

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