Books & Articles related to Historical Trauma

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal

Donna Jackson Nakazawa created a groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer—Childhood Disrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them.

Historical trauma: Politics of a conceptual framework

Dr.Prussing takes us through an overview of 30 recent peer-reviewed publications that aim to clarify, define, measure, and interpret how HT impacts American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) mental health, this paper examines how the conceptual framework of HT has circulated in ways shaped by interactions among three prominent research approaches.

A community-based treatment for Native American historical trauma: prospects for evidence-based practice.

This article explores the therapeutic approach used to address the legacy of Native American historical trauma. Focusing particularly in patients’ healing journey which entailed a reclamation of indigenous heritage, identity, and spirituality that program staff thought would neutralize the pathogenic effects of colonization.

Redressing First Nations historical trauma

Theorizing mechanisms for indigenous culture as mental health treatment

In this paper, Joseph Gone explores the term historical trauma within indigenous First Nations. The contrast between historical experiences of European colonization, to personal experiences of a traumatic nature, the concept of historical trauma calls attention to the complex, collective, cumulative, and intergenerational psychosocial impacts.

Wakiksuyapi: Carrying the Historical Trauma of the Lakota

In this article, Dr. Mary Braveheart presents both quantitative and qualitative data on the experience of Lakota historical trauma among a coping segment of the population. The data supported the theory of a Lakota historical trauma response. Wakiksuyapi. those carrying the historical trauma, can transcend trauma through a collective survivor identity and a commitment to traditionally oriented values and healing.

Historical Trauma Among Indigenous Peoples of the americas: Concepts, research and clinical considerations

This article will review the conceptual framework of historical trauma, current efforts to measure the impact of historical trauma upon emotional distress, and research as well as clinical innovations aimed at addressing historical trauma among American Indians/Alaska Natives and other Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. Braveheart will also discuss assessment of historical trauma and implications for research and clinical as well as community interventions, and conclude with recommendations.

The return to the sacred path:

Healing the historical trauma and historical unresolved grief response among the lakota through a psychoeducational group intervention

This article, based on research conducted with Lakota human service providers, Dr.Braveheart concludes that the Lakota (Teton Sioux) suffer from impaired grief of an enduring and pervasive quality. Impaired grief results from massive cumulative trauma associated with such cataclysmic events as the assassination of Sitting Bull, the Wounded Knee Massacre, and the forced removal of Lakota children to boarding schools.

Gender Differences in the Historical Trauma

Response Among the Lakota- Mary Braveheart

The historical trauma response is a constellation of characteristics associated with massive cumulative group trauma across generations, similar to those found among Jewish Holocaust survivors and descendants. This article explores gender differences in the historical trauma response among the Lakota (Teton Sioux) and the correlation with health and mental health statistics.

Shaping a Stories of Resilience Model

From urban American Indian elders’ narratives of historical trauma and resilience

American Indians (AIs) have experienced traumatizing events but practice remarkable resilience to large-scale and long-term adversities. Qualitative, community-based participatory research served to collect urban AI elders' life narratives on historical trauma and resilience strategies. Based on the stories, Dr. Reinschmidt developed an explanatory Stories of Resilience Model.

Conceptualizing and measuring historical trauma

Among american Indian people

This article reports on the development of two measures relating to historical trauma among American Indian people: The Historical Loss Scale and The Historical Loss Associated Symptoms Scale. Frequencies indicate that the current generation of American Indian adults have frequent thoughts pertaining to historical losses and that they associate these losses with negative feelings.

Books on Southern California Region/History

Medicinal plants used by native american tribes in southern california

The Medicinal Plants Used by Native American Tribes in Southern California by Donna Largo, Daniel McCarthy, and Marcia Roper provides a resource guide for medical providers and traditional health care practitioners in an effort to better coordinate patient care with traditional practices. This guide includes a piece on the historical timeline and the impact on health. A secondary purpose is to make available information about traditional medicine to anyone interested in disease prevention through Native American knowledge and traditions.

Shadows of the Sherman Institute: A Photographic History of the Indian School on Magnolia Avenue

In this powerful work, Shadows of Sherman, the evolution of this landmark institution, the Sherman Indian High School, is presented through Lorene Sisquoc’s unparalleled lens of understanding and knowledge of the long, storied history of Sherman. The authors have culled remarkable archival images, stories and documents and with these, they have woven the history of Sherman that has never been available until now.

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