This article is a comprehensive overview of the boarding school system in the United States. It includes origins of the school system, justification for forcing Native American children to attend school, cultural assimilation, and the eventual opposition to the boarding school system. Read Article Here Read PDF Here Sonja Keohane. “The Reservation Boarding School System […]
This powerful article addresses a broad ranges of issues including historical trauma across generations, substance abuse, poverty, and healing practices. For example tribal communities can revitalize their culture by hosting traditional dances, drumming and singing circles, and quilting and weaving groups to occupy social spaces formerly held by substance abuse. The CEO of a Native […]
This is a documentary that discusses how adverse childhood experiences (ACE) can affect physical health throughout someone’s life and create other issues such as decreased life expectancy. The professionals in the documentary stress the importance of reversing the effects ACE can have on a person’s life through different practices. Watch Trailer Here Source: “Resilience: The […]
In this article Paula Palmer addresses the Quaker’s role in Indian Boarding schools, and the effects these schools continue to have on boarding school survivors, their descendents, and communities. She amplifies this by adding perspectives and quotes from students and faculty who attended or worked at Quaker-run schools. In the end she calls on fellow […]
This guide is a resource for understanding what triggers anger, and the psychological and physiological response to it, especially chronic anger. In addition this article also illustrates the additional health issues that can arise from chronic stress hormones such as decreased cardiovascular health. Read Article Here Read PDF Here Source: Ruth Buczynski, Ph.D. “How Anger […]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s report on residential schools in Canada laid out the neglect and abuse aboriginal children and youth were put through. Studies have shown that trauma might have an affect not only the person experiencing the trauma, but also subsequent generations via their DNA. Brent speaks with Amy Bombay, assistant professor of psychiatry at Dalhousie University, on […]
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 […]
The theory of historical trauma was developed to explain the current problems facing many Native Americans. This theory purports that some Native Americans are experiencing historical loss symptoms (e.g., depression, substance dependence, diabetes, dysfunctional parenting, unemployment) as a result of the cross generational trauma from historical losses (e.g., loss of population, land, and culture). However, […]
A study was conducted to see the effects of trauma transmitted to offspring through genetics. 38 pregnant women who were at or near the World Trade Center during the attack were the research subjects. The study collected saliva from those women to test their levels of cortisol. The results found that the women who developed […]
