An assistant professor of psychiatry, Amy Bombay, has studied how trauma is passed through generations specifically, “through a kind of...
The students of residential school survivors are speaking out about how their parent’s trauma has affected them. Their experiences range...
Several First Nations youth testified about student deaths at Thunder Bay that happened between 2000-2001. They also explain how the...
Science has shown the connection between trauma and illness, and how it affects our minds, bodies, and genes. The science...
Like a lot of the details of the United States historical relations with the indigenous inhabitants of this land, the...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is something we are now accustomed to attributing to the effects of war. We used to...
Ojibwe journalist Mary Annette Pember visited an Alaskan community to examine historical trauma and mental health practices. She says the...
Sweetwater Nannauck was helping her ill father when she heard the story of his boarding school experience. As she listened...
Pre-1900 25 off reservation boarding schools were established that housed 10,000 students. By the end of the Boarding School Era,...
Indian boarding schools were one of the cruelest experiments inflicted upon Native American communities across the United States. In most...
This article not only explains the history of the residential school system in the United States, but also in Canada,...
Stories, memories, and research from the traumatic boarding school era were discussed at the Third Permanent U.N. Forum on Indigenous...