by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 21, 2021 | Columbus
When Christopher Columbus first set foot on the white sands of Guanahani island, he performed a ceremony to “take possession” of the land for the king and queen of Spain … few people are aware that his act of “possession” was based on a religious doctrine now known in history as the Doctrine of Discovery. Even fewer people realize that today – five centuries later – the United States government still uses this archaic Judeo-Christian doctrine to deny the rights of Native American Indians.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 20, 2021 | Introduction to healing
The intent of this article is to examine the theoretical framework of historical trauma and apply recent research regarding the impact of trauma on an individual’s physiological functioning and cross-generational transmission of trauma.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 18, 2021 | Introduction to healing
The emotional trauma of separation from their parents also triggers subtle biological alterations—changes so lasting that the children might even pass them to their own offspring. That idea would have been laughed at 20 years ago.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 18, 2021 | Introduction to healing
This explains the epigenome as a type of software that runs on the computer-like cell. The epigenome can affect lots of different cells, just as a software program can be run on many different computers. He thinks this study might help explain why states in the southern United States—which had more severe food shortages during and after the Civil War—have worse health outcomes today.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 18, 2021 | Introduction to healing
In my own life, I couldn’t account for the dread that would sometimes descend on me for no apparent reason. It seemed to me there was something vaster, more amorphous and inexplicable at work than the usual psychological culprits. I needed to understand what it was. I began to wonder if the darkness I carried had its source in the suffering of unknown ancestors whose history of banishment and exile was in my blood.
by Rachel Carey-Harper | Mar 18, 2021 | Resistance
Digitizing is a priority, and that’s an important step that will be taken for oral histories of Native Americans that were recorded in the 1960s and 1970s.
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