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Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart first developed the concept of historical trauma while working with Lakota communities in the 1980s. Yellow Horse Brave Heart's scholarship focused on the ways in which the psychological and emotional traumas of colonisation, relocation, assimilation, and American Indian boarding schools have manifested within generations of the Lakota population.
Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart is a Native American social worker, associate professor and mental health expert. She is best known for developing a model of historical trauma for the Lakota people, [2] which would eventually be expanded to encompass indigenous
The title of the film was inspired by American Indian Movement (AIM) co-founder Dennis Banks [8] who stated "we have been dodging bullets for generations" [9] which metaphorically infers that Native Americans not only have had to dodge bullets fired from guns, but also the genocide and ethnocide [10] inflected by the colonists since first contact with Europeans.
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has tallied an additional 113 schools not on the government list that were run by churches and with no evidence of federal support ...
Decades after the last Native American boarding schools stopped receiving federal money, the traumas inflicted by the abusive institutions are getting belated attention through a series of ...
A 2022 study revealed that Native American college students experienced the greatest increase of depression and anxiety between 2013 and 2021 out of all ethnic and racial groups. [131] According to a 2023 study, a strong sense of ethnic identity can reduce the negative emotional impact of historical loss on Native American college students. [132]
American Indian youth are confronted with the burden of intergenerational trauma, trauma that is passed between generations by historical or cultural trauma. A study looking at two generations of American Indians and their relationship to psychological trauma found that participants who experienced traumatic events early in their lives usually ...
He has conducted systematic reviews on Indigenous historical trauma and its impact on health, critically examining the American Indian historical trauma concept. [16] His work emphasizes the need for a culturally and contextually informed approach in the study of psychopathology .