This report states that Canada should strategically establish residential schools for First Nation children in specific locations. The author cites the five “civilized” nations: the Cherokee, the Choctaw, the Chickasaw, the Creeks, and the Seminole (in the United States) as examples of success. Read PDF Here Flood, D.M. “Report on industrial schools for Indians and […]
This report gives an extensive overview of Native American education in the United States, including how schools have failed to provide adequate education and this has resulted in poor academic and life outcomes for Native American communities. Additionally, the report makes subcommittee recommendations, such as the role federal and non-federal schools play in educating Native […]
This article explains the purpose of the tribunal, the sacred aspects of justice, and gives a detailed breakdown of the issue of residential schools being classified as ethnocide or genocide. The findings are broken into three extensive categories: 1) Some principles of aboriginal life and law guiding my inquiry findings; 2) Mission of the Tribunal-My […]
The current reconciliation process taking place in Canada is a collaboration between Aboriginal residential school survivors, their families, the Canadian government, and churches are finally addressing the impacts still felt by Indian Residential Schools. In these schools students were forced to abandon their culture and language in order to assimilate into the dominant society. Decades […]
This paper reviews research that has explored the concept of intergenerational trauma and the effects of the Indian Residential School system (in Canada) where Aboriginal children were forced to attend schools filled with abuse and neglect. The effects of intergenerational trauma continue to impact Aboriginal communities, especially if a family has a history at Indian […]
This article is a review of the literature on intergenerational transmission of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from fathers to sons in families of war veterans. The review addresses several questions: (1) Which fathers have a greater tendency to transmit their distress to their offspring? (2) What is transmitted from father to child? (3) How is […]
Trauma has been garnering more and more attention over the past few years, with the rampant climb of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the understanding of what can cause it. Intergenerational trauma among American Indians is an area of study that has just started to generate attention from communities inside Indian country, academia and the medical […]
The purpose of this research is to understand the relationship of health risk behavior and disease in adulthood to the breadth of exposure to childhood emotional, physical, or sexual abuse and household dysfunction during childhood. This has not been previously described. The results found a strong graded relationship between the breadth of exposure to abuse […]
This paper begins with a discussion of the broader aspects of historical trauma among Alaska’s indigenous people, beginning in the late 1880s and continuing into most of the 1900s. Topics include: the introduction of Western illnesses and diseases, Western education (boarding schools) and forced Western Christianity. However the main focus of this paper is to […]
This thesis addresses a major gap in scholarship addressing Native American offreservation boarding schools in the United States, which to date has focused primarily on cultural loss and student experiences. Detailing off-reservation boarding schools’ institutional attacks on students’ language, family relations, and culture is without a doubt critical, but this thesis explores a different kind […]
Truth and Reconciliation Commissions are official, temporary bodies used for communities to come to terms with past violence, promote education and awareness of historic trauma, and to provide recognition and closure for victims and successors. By bringing past issues to light, such commissions promote healing and allow these communities to move forward. Although the Commission […]
From Letters from the Commissioner: This report describes the process and findings, discoveries and recommendations of the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth & Reconciliation Commission, whose mandate was endorsed in February 2013. The governor of Maine and the five tribal chiefs signed as equals to authorize the Commission to investigate whether or not the removal […]
