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First Alaskans Institute – How We Heal Toolkit

Hosting a community gathering? Interested in learning more about healing? Check out this toolkit created by First Alaskans Institute as a part of the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Initiative. The toolkit can help you think through the logistics of your next gathering and help you learn how to prepare yourself spiritually, or, it can […]

Miracle Survivor (Pisatsikamotaan): An Indigenous Theory on Educational Persistence Grounded in the Stories of Tribal College Students

In response to a history of erasure and low graduation rates among American Indian students, American Indian leaders drew upon a self-determination framework to rethink and reshape higher education. This dissertation by Iris HeavyRunner-PrettyPaint shows how these leaders sought to found American Indian colleges that could strengthen reservation economies and tribal cultures without forcing students […]

Childhood Trauma Leads to Brains Wired for Fear

This book, “The Body Keeps Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma”, reveals how childhood trauma literally changes the wiring of the brain to constantly feel danger and fear. This kind of trauma particularly impacts the areas of our brain that are dedicated to: pleasure, engagement, control, and trust. The book is […]

Racial Healing Conversation Guide

Created by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, this conversation guide is for individuals, organizations, and communities who want to come together to create a better world. The guide gives suggestions, optional activities and conversation starters, and tips to promote more respectful conversation, recognize the experiences of others, connect more with different cultures and histories, and promote […]

A Call to Action: Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Boarding School Records

This is a recorded version of a presentation that Christine McCleave and Rose Miron, Staff from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, did at the 2018 meeting of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. The presentation outlines the history of U.S. Indian boarding schools, the importance of understanding and sharing the […]

Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to Matanzas Bay

This curatorial project retraces the history of seventy-two American Indian peoples from the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Caddo Nations who were forcibly taken from their homes in Salt Fork, OK, and transported by train to St. Augustine, Florida by the United States war department. This action was completed under the direction of Lieutenant Richard […]

Transforming the Pain: A Workbook on Vicarious Traumatization

This 1996 workbook provides specific tools, guidelines, and activities for those who are impacted by vicarious traumatization (a transformation that occurs in the human body, causing someone else’s trauma that you did not experience to impact you). Vicarious traumatization occurs when you help or work with people who have been traumatized, either in your profession […]

Spiritual Leadership in Modern-Day Native American Culture and Approaches to Native American Religion and Christianity

This qualitative study focuses on the modern-day approaches to Native American religion and Christianity in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN metro area. The spiritual leaders interviewed were asked about the varieties of spirituality practices in the Native American community today, the potential conflicts or areas of compatibility among these various spiritual practices, and the role of […]

Revitalizing (Diné) Navajo Traditions

Lyla June Johnston turned down Harvard Business School in order to return to her community and immerse herself in traditional Navajo culture and customs. Returning to her roots has helped her heal from her own trauma. She is trying to help other youth connect with their culture. Like many tribes, the Navajo were forced to […]

Residential school survivors need clinical and cultural care, advocates urge

At a training event geared towards helping residential school survivors and their families who are affected by trauma, an important topic was discussed: combining psychologists and social workers with community-based counselors to help patients. This combination of knowledge can be beneficial to the patient by providing a holistic treatment. Community-based counselors have cultural knowledge, and […]