Here is information and links on historical trauma interventions.

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Click these links which come from a variety of sources, and will be updated as this site develops. Please send to Ray Daw any suggestions you have to furher enhance the information in this page.

Plains Healing Lodge History of Healing Lodges Link

Gathering of Native Americans (GONA) The GONA offers hope, encouragement, and a positive basis for Native community action; provides Native communities with a framework to examine historical trauma and its impact on substance abuse issues; emphasizes skill transfer and community empowerment; and presents a prevention framework based on values inherent in traditional Native cultures.

White Bison The center for the Wellbriety movement, with the vision of bringing 100 communities into healing.

Project THRIVE THRIVE is a community-based participatory research project that seeks to promote the mental health and well-being of American Indian youth by addressing violence exposure and historical and chronic trauma.

Historic Trauma and Aboriginal Healing For Crisis intervention: A handbook of practice and research.

Healing a Wounded Past The seven dimensions of this model can guide nursing care to Native American patients who exhibit physical and mental/emotional signs and symptoms resulting from historical trauma.

Residential School Syndrome or Historical Trauma: finding what works Presents an overview of current treatment literature accompanied with case vignettes.

Indian Health Services American Indian and Alaskan Native Suicide Prevention Website A rich source of links and references on suicide prevention history and resources.

The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center In order to address HIV/AIDS among Native populations, it is essential to understand and respond to historical and social barriers.

Beyond Intractability A Free Knowledge Base on More Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict. Is a University of Colorado-Boulder project, funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.


American Indian National Population Distribution, 2000 U.S. census U.S. Census Link

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