Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and StrategiesIn Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the "soul wound" of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through

The contributors show how gender

The trauma of her experience cast a pall over Pember's own childhood and her relationship with her mother

Authors Soctomah and Flahive imagine the relationship that developed between these two as Tomah Joseph taught young Franklin how to canoe and shared some of the stories and culture of his people

After setting out the most common genealogical practices that facilitate race shifting

as well as the devastating separation from family

"The Animals of My Mother Earth is a story exploring the traits of our sacred animal relatives through imagination and wonder

philosophy

Simpson's work breaks open the intersections between politics

the land and all living things is holistic and fundamental

a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again

Mexican secularization

Shoni Schimmel