Indigenous Beats, Indigenous Songs: The Connection between Music and Early Learning and Development, Part II
June 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Songs and music play a big part in the growth and development of our Indige-babies! In Season Two of Turtle Talk, we started a conversation about Indigenous Beats, Indigenous Songs; in that episode (aired November 2025), we explored samples of Indigenous children’s songs and opened pathways to wondering how Indigenous beats can be restored to our families and communities. In this episode, we build on our first conversation to discover the ways families can create music together, understand the impact of songs and music on children’s development, and envision how music can be a significant way to develop and inspire children’s voices, connecting them to our ancestors, culture, and language.
Turtle Talk is back! We invite Native parents, teachers, and caregivers, along with those working with Native children and families and those interested in the work of raising our Indigenous children, to join us for the third season of Turtle Talk: Collectively Raising Indige-babies, a BTC Family-to-Family Real Talk virtual conversation series!
The series is convened by the Indigenous Early Learning Collaborative (IELC) Institute and is a fun way to engage parents and families in thinking forward about how we collectively raise Indigenous children and babies in a contemporary and fast-growing technological, global, Indigenous society. Turtle talk refers to our animal relatives speaking with one another and with us. The play on Indigenous babies, “Indige-babies” for short, in the title calls us to look just over the horizon and ask ourselves, “What will the world be like for our babies/children and families? How does being raised in this fast-evolving world with the increasing demand of digital, technological, and cultural engagement impact our traditions and approaches to raising our babies?”
