Emery-Rose Assiniboine

 

Emery-rose Assiniboine is a Dakĥota and Nêhiyaw Indigenous Social Worker, cultural facilitator, seamstress, Indigenous artist, and founder of Em Assiniboine Designs. She is a member of the Long Plain First Nation in Treaty 1 Territory, Manitoba, and the Nekaneet Cree Nation in Treaty 4 Territory, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Emery holds a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Indigenous Social Work from the First Nations University of Canada, Emery is recognized for her leadership in Indigenous parenting revitalization, intergenerational healing, cultural resurgence, mental wellness, and strengthening Indigenous families and communities.

Through her emerging work revitalizing Dakĥota cradleboard-making with First Nation communities, Emery-rose shares how Indigenous parenting practices foster attachment, emotional regulation, identity, belonging, and connection to family and community—foundations she views as essential to Indigenous life promotion and suicide prevention.

Grounded in Dakĥota Wičhóȟan (worldviews), her keynote at the World Indigenous Suicide Prevention Conference 2026 will explore how restoring Indigenous parenting teachings and revitalizing Indigenous child-rearing knowledge can strengthen cultural identity, relational connection, and collective care. Her work invites us to view suicide prevention not only as crisis intervention, but as the lifelong work of ensuring every child grows up feeling safe, loved, connected, and held by their people, communities, and nations.

Through this work, she hopes to inspire conversations about creating ecologies of love that nurture hope, healing, belonging, and generational love for future generations.

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