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What is Historical Trauma

Chapter 15
Indigenous Research of Land, Self, and Spirit
Often begins with genocide, acculturation, or forced assimilation and is defined as the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethical, racial, or religious group and results in cumulative emotional and psychological wounding across generations of individuals.
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Struggles With Historical Trauma: Cognitive Awareness and Native American Culture
Kirsten A. Koenig (Northcentral University, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 28
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3729-9.ch015
Abstract
The chapter presents results from a qualitative phenomenological heuristic study of the perceptions of historical trauma across Native American nations. Historical trauma has been established as a by-product of cultural and physical suppression. Cultural psychology details the impact of an individual's culture on the psychological development of the individual. Therefore, by examining the change to the culture that resulted in historical trauma, determination could be made regarding how the individual was impacted. This research addressed these contentions by interviewing Native American persons from the Eastern and Northern nations of North America and Canada and determined how historical trauma had influenced their psychological development via symptoms they experienced. The research identified several areas that differed from the extant literature regarding the Eastern and Northern nations.
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