Register now for Historical Trauma in the state of Hawaii & the U.S. Territories June 22nd, 2023!

Ingrid Ross Cockhren - 1988 US Congressional Resolution #331 - noting the role of the Iroquois constitution in the development of our U.S. Constitution-with its provision for "Generational Review" (which may have served to prevent "Trans-Generational" problems [such as the Rights of Iroquois Women to: "Assert, Debate, VOTE, and Declare War", beginning in 1095-1150 A.D., when the Iroquois 'reached consensus' on their constitution. Is there any recorded (trans-generational) trauma in the 'Northeast' where the Iroquois were 'most prevalent' ? ? ? (I am trying to query an attorney - whom I believe is on the faculty of Dartmouth College's Native American Studies program faculty.)

Would the [Canadian] Aboriginal Healing Foundation's reports provide suitable 'Roadmaps' for the American Southwest, Hawaii, and Micronesia to use. Copies of the [Canadian] Aboriginal Healing Foundation's Reports and the pertinent reports of the Solicitor General of Canada are on file at our NCPTSD Library ? ?

I look forward to learning about the history.

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@Marie Mauboussin posted:

Are these taped?  Is it possible to watch them at a later time?

These will be recorded and available to those who are registered. Thank you for your interest!

Are these taped?  Is it possible to watch them at a later time?

I joined the Southwest webinar today, which was fantastic. Will the seminars which were already completed be held again in the future? I would love to attend all the regions if possible. Thanks!

This is a subject that comes up often from someone close to me who was raised by a mother with DID, to nationally in meetings I attend with the National Coalition for the Homeless and the NAACP.  I'm sharing this and hope the discussion continues because it is needed.

Connie Jean Conklin, MEd, founder SEASCAT.org

Lest I forget... The NCPTSD Library in White River Junction, Vermont had copies of the [Canadian] Aboriginal Healing Foundation's and Solicitor General's Aboriginal ....assorted reports... I haven't been in there during 'Pandemic' times, so there may be more.

    1988 U.S.  Congressional Resolution #331 notes the role of the Iroquois constitution in the development of our U.S. Constitution. "Gayaneshagowa"-the Iroquois constitution, beginning in 1150 AD: 1) availed Women the Rights to Assert, Debate, Vote, &  Declare War; 2) Left us 'democratic tools' like "Recall Petitions" and "Ballot Initiatives"; 3) Provided for "Generational Review" (perhaps to prevent 'Trans-Generational Trauma and ACEs).

     I haven't yet been able to identify and/or specify particulars as I've only 'pondered' one Iroquois Historian (Elizabeth Tooker [Duke University Press]), but I'm hoping a new 'Indigenous Program' at Dartmouth College may avail us 'further clarification'...

@Grace Duarte-Baker  Yes! so relevant! we profess this innocence but when we look back at history, even Christian's were all about power!

Im radical. I think the trauma concept is a good step  but am careful of its use and over used when other words are appropriate. Just cause you have a hammer not everything is a nail. Its great we got this far though! It serves a good purpose but it is rooted in the white mentality of the system we are addressing so we need to beware of its limits.  I believe Mammals are designed to handle trauma. But we actually dont have the science that female humans are mammals applied. The next point is we need to address that  living things die in captivity, in cages and when movement is not allowed. No movement is death. And often and more than ever, the captivity is in the brain from the training of thought which then determines actions. My thoughts For what its worth.... I look forward to learning about the history.

White Europeans with long history of cultural trauma arrived as traumatized colonists who continued to reenact the trauma done unto them.  Le'ts keep in mind: The anglo-saxon warfare of the 5th and 11th centuries, the viking raids of the 790s to the late 11th century in Europe, the trauma of WWI that came through Ellis Island, and the subsequent "whitening" of Eastern Europeans  including the racial exceptionalism that has enabled East Europeans to benefit from the privileges associated with whiteness without suffering the “white guilt” of imperialism and slavery.  The intersectional history of historical trauma among native peoples plus the historic trauma that underlies white european supremacy is not the same.  But it is connected.   

I just received notification of these webinars, and I would love the chance to view the session pertaining to the Midwest session.  Were these sessions recorded?

Please post the slides for each webinar of this series. 

@Joan Yost posted:

I must disagree with this assessment. Many people, including Northern European immigrants, had horrifying experiences from the early exploratory period until the present. Illness wiped out many colonial communities, leaving few, if any survivors. Many early British immigrants were brought here as prisoners. Others were indentured servants, the majority of whom did not survive. Europeans married into local communities, lived with them, and did business with them over a period of 200 years before the Declaration of Independence. Those communities were often at war with each other. In the 19th century most European immigrants were fleeing famine, poverty and death. Revolution and civil war spare no one. Skin privilege is no insurance against massacre by neighbors, or even by ones’ own government.

Yes, Joan Yost, and add that vast numbers came here escaping religious persecution, either within their own denomination or because their denomination was a minority faith, deemed by European oppressors to be heretical and or dangerous.

One example of the later is the "Amish Mennonite" faith in Switzerland, whose members were being openly pursued and persecuted to death throughout Europe by the dominant Catholic (and sometimes Reformed) faiths.  The 'Church' was the 'State' governing power at that point throughout Europe, and masterful at oppressing and traumatizing common folks of all faiths.  Some fled on their own to America escaping European genocides (one example here: the Amish Mennonite genocide).  Some who lived were captured, separated from families and banished by the ChurchState to America or Caribbean as punishment.

Those of other faiths, who looked different and or practiced different traditions and or suffered mental health struggles were pursued and persecuted upon arrival here as "witches" and "demon possessed".   

Otherwise, waves of illness and seasons of starvation and violent confrontations with native peoples was a common plight of early arrivals of all persuasions.

It must be acknowledged  that trauma washed over these shores pervasively.  No one was exempt.  The USA has been formed by and from groups of variously traumatized peoples enduring a long list of experiences, sadly including what we've done to each other,  before, during and after arrival.

The webinar about historical trauma in the Northeast gets at the trauma that the early European settlers experienced. Be sure to tune in!

@Leckey Harrison posted:

Our founding was traumatic for all but whites. The genocide that followed and the slavery we brought to this land was built into the founding documents. Let us also not forget that to this day, there is not one single female pronoun in  the Constitution, or its amendments, and so we can include sexism as an expression of trauma which continues to this day.

I must disagree with this assessment. Many people, including Northern European immigrants, had horrifying experiences from the early exploratory period until the present. Illness wiped out many colonial communities, leaving few, if any survivors. Many early British immigrants were brought here as prisoners. Others were indentured servants, the majority of whom did not survive. Europeans married into local communities, lived with them, and did business with them over a period of 200 years before the Declaration of Independence. Those communities were often at war with each other. In the 19th century most European immigrants were fleeing famine, poverty and death. Revolution and civil war spare no one. Skin privilege is no insurance against massacre by neighbors, or even by ones’ own government.

I receive so many PACES email, I overlooked the “Historical Trauma in the American South   July 15th, 2021 ,” email.

Good thing I opened up this email and registered for the upcoming series! How exciting and thank you for sharing and uniting us all.

I'm so looking forward to this discussion!

@Patricia Clason posted:

Any chance these will be recorded and available streaming or on demand? I already have conflicts with most of the dates!

Hi Patricia,

Yes, these will be recorded and shared on our YouTube channel!

Our founding was traumatic for all but whites. The genocide that followed and the slavery we brought to this land was built into the founding documents. Let us also not forget that to this day, there is not one single female pronoun in  the Constitution, or its amendments, and so we can include sexism as an expression of trauma which continues to this day.

Any chance these will be recorded and available streaming or on demand? I already have conflicts with most of the dates!

Wow. Thank you for this!

I have shared this information with a grassroots group that is working to increase awareness of AAPI hatred and the history of it. Your 2 sessions on the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii will be very useful for them.

Yes these are free. No others planned at this time. Hope you sign up and attend!

Might other groups be added at later date(s) ?

Are these Free ?

I would suggest that you sign up now.  I will also be updating the blog as the sessions approach.  Thank you!

Will you be resending these links periodically throughout the year as the next date approaches, or should we sign up for all of them now?

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