Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Kootenai Washoe to Welsh

Washoe to Welsh

and the ways we think

In the late 1960s

living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe

tells a continuum story of a homeland under erasure

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Kootenai Washoe to WelshIn Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the "soul wound" of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through