PUBH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Historical Trauma, Tribal Sovereignty In The United States, Collective Trauma
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Historical trauma: cumulative emotional and psychological wounding, extending over individual lifespan and across generations. Collective trauma: trauma psychological effect shared by group of people. Segregation from employment, educational opportunities and residential options. Members of oppressed group believe and act out stereotypes created about their group. Deficits in environmental and structural levels serve to increase or exacerbate traumatic risk factors. Ex: schools in lower income are under resourced, understaffed. Native americans and the legacy of historical trauma. Valued private ownership of lands and property. Land and resources: value as inheritance from earth (respect, holistic view) European believed they were not using resources properly. States pursued policies to allow them to take land and push native people west. Indian had claim to land they occupied, but legal title was less than what the european had right through discovery. Georgie want to move cherokee to oklahoma. Cherokee were a sovereign nation: treated like a state.
