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Documenting and Promoting Resilience in Urban American Indians

$90,307P20FY2013MDNIH

Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

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Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): To American Indians, resilience as a response to trauma is not new. They have survived forced removal from homelands, genocide, the imposition of a reservation system, mandated boarding schools, forced adoption programs, and discriminatory practices against their cultural traditions, religions, and languages. Such prolonged exposure to negative factors has resulted in a long-term cycle of historical trauma. Brave Heart (1999) describes historical trauma response as

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