Legacy : trauma, story and Indigenous healing /
Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities, and strategies for healing, with provocative prose and an empathetic approach Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes and other chronic health conditions than other North Americans. According to...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Toronto :
ECW Press,
[2019]
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| Summary: | Exploring intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities, and strategies for healing, with provocative prose and an empathetic approach Indigenous peoples have shockingly higher rates of addiction, depression, diabetes and other chronic health conditions than other North Americans. According to the Aboriginal Healing Foundation, these are a result of intergenerational trauma, the unresolved terror, anger, fear and grief created in Indigenous communities by the painful experiences of colonialism, passed down from generation to generation. How are we to turn this desperate tide? With passionate argumentation and chillingly clear prose, author and educator Suzanne Methot uses her own and others' stories to trace the roots of colonial trauma and the mechanisms by which trauma has become intergenerational, and she explores the Indigenous ways of knowing that can lead us toward change. |
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| Physical Description: | 360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-341) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1770414258 9781770414259 |