05/10/2026
Today, Grandmotherâs Voice honours Motherâs Day.
We honour Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunties, Sisters, Two-Spirit relatives, caregivers, and all those who have mothered through love, responsibility, kinship, teaching, protection, and care.
Mothering has never belonged to one role alone. In Indigenous families and communities, children have always been held by many hands. A Grandmotherâs kitchen, an Auntieâs laugh, a Sisterâs steady presence, an Elderâs teaching, a neighbourâs open door, a community member who notices when a child has gone quiet, these are all part of the circle of care.
Today, we honour the Mothers who gave life.
We honour the Grandmothers who carried teachings, stories, medicines, songs, recipes, language, ceremony, discipline, humour, and love across generations.
We honour the Aunties who showed up with food, rides, advice, truth, tenderness, and the kind of love that can be both fierce and soft.
We honour those who mother children they did not birth, but loved as their own.
We honour those who are grieving Mothers, missing Mothers, complicated Mothers, and the absence of Mothers.
We honour those who wanted to mother and could not.
We honour those whose children were taken by systems, by violence, by illness, by distance, by colonial harm, or by circumstances no family should have had to survive.
We honour the children, youth, and adults for whom Motherâs Day is tender, painful, unfinished, or full of questions.
And we honour the truth that Indigenous mothering has always been an act of survival, resistance, and love. To care for children, to keep culture alive, to pass on identity, to protect belonging, to teach young people who they are and where they come from, this is sacred work.
Today, may we remember that Motherâs Day is not only flowers and cards. It is memory. It is responsibility. It is gratitude. It is grief. It is laughter around a kitchen table. It is a braid done gently. It is tea poured without asking. It is a hand on the back. It is the voice that says, âYou are loved. You belong. You are not alone.â
To the Mothers, Grandmothers, Aunties, and all who mother in the many ways our communities need, Grandmotherâs Voice honours you.