Historical Trauma of Aboriginal People

sweetgrassIt is not only residential schools that are responsible for the trauma Aboriginal Peoples are experiencing. Remember, historical trauma occurs at an individual, family and community level. Colonization has resulted in loss of...

  • Loss of lifestyle,
  • Loss of spirituality, 
  • Loss of connection with land.  

All of this resulted in loss of the stability of the base family.

This was especially true when the communities children were forcibly taken away. This has resulted in intergenerational cycles of marginalization of Aboriginal peoples in neighbourhoods, education, housing, employment and interaction with the legal system. (Report on the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 1996a)

 

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