<p>Colonization has significantly disrupted parenting practices across generations of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) peoples in North America, fracturing the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge and weakening community-based systems of care. Storytelling, a foundational mode of knowledge transmission across Indigenous cultures, continues to serve as a culturally grounded parenting practice through which values, traditions, and histories are conveyed across generations. The present study explored parenting beliefs and practices among AIAN mothers in the Southwestern United States (U.S.). Individual interviews were conducted with urban AIAN mothers living in Arizona (<i>M</i> = 36.69 years, <i>SD =</i> 12.12). Initial findings (<i>n</i> = 8) identified storytelling as an important parenting tool. An additional 8 participants were interviewed to triangulate the findings and to include specific attention/probes on storytelling. Interview data were coded and categorized into three key themes, indicating cultural storytelling as a parenting tool that teach: <i>morals and lessons</i> (“Each story has a purpose that is used in the mental, physical and character development of a child”); <i>cultural traditions</i> (“…pass it on to our kids so they can know where we came from”); and <i>history</i> (e.g., survivors of boarding school harm). These findings position storytelling as a culturally embedded mechanism for guiding child development and passing down Indigenous knowledge. Implications for clinical social work include integrating storytelling within therapeutic and narrative-based approaches, supporting caregivers in using storytelling as a tool for communication and guidance, and creating space for culturally grounded parenting practices within treatment settings.</p>