Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Kootenai places for ceremonies

places for ceremonies

and the ways we think

In the late 1960s

That her dispossessed ancestors’ homestead

the same eyes

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Kootenai places for ceremoniesIn 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