Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives’ Inherited ...

Intergenerational Trauma: Understanding Natives' Inherited Pain By Mary Annette Pember Intro Trauma has been garnering more and more attention over the past few years, with the rampant climb of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, and the Understanding of what can cause it. Intergenerational trauma among American Indians is an area of study that has just started to generate attention from communities inside Indian country, academicia and the medical profession. Mary Annette Pember has worked for several years to help bring this dynamic issue to the forefront of mainstream health. Her reporting for ICTMN, with the help of support from The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism and Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism, University of Southern California; the Dennis A.

offers a three-fold definition. In the initial phase, the dominant culture perpetrates mass trauma on a population in the form of colonialism, slavery, war or genocide. In the second phase the affected population shows physical and psychological symptoms in response to the trauma. In the final phase, the initial population

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