Rhonda Lee Grantham is an Indigenous Midwife, herbalist, and cultural anthropologist living and serving families on her ancestral territories in Washington state. She is an enrolled member of the Cowlitz Nation, a Salish-Sahaptian tribe that translates to “Seeker of the Medicine Spirit”.

She loves harvesting and sharing plant medicines, storytelling, and teaching classes of all kinds. She is especially dedicated to growing more Indigenous Birthkeepers, offering support as they share their stories, skills, and struggles. She is the founder and director of both the Center for Indigenous Midwifery and the Canoe Journey Herbalists project. While the two organizations go about their work differently, the roots are the same. Connection to land, ceremony andcommunity heal generations.

Indigenous midwives & healers have forever offered their hands in service throughout life’s journeys. She grew up being gently welcomed into birth work alongside her own mother. She has since attended approximately 2500 births, while providing educational, ceremonial, and family support to thousands more. Here at home, she has midwife’d families from rural reservations to urban birth centers. She is also thankful for the unique privilege of working alongside Indigenous midwives and healers globally; in birth settings ranging from disaster relief zones to busy clinics, and from mud huts to isolated island villages.

While becoming a mother was a transformative teacher, the recent birth of her very first granddaughter awakened something entirely new. She is understanding more and more everyday the importance of planting seeds for the next generation. from first breaths to first foods and beyond.