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American Indian historical trauma: community perspectives from two great plains medicine men

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Hartmann, William E., Gone, Joseph P.·2014·American Journal of Community Psychology

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The field of community psychology has long been interested in the relations between how community problems are defined, what interventions are developed in response, and to what degree power is distributed as a result. Tensions around these issues have come to the fore in debates over the influence of historical trauma (HT) in American Indian (AI) communities. After interviewing the two most influential medicine men on a Great Plains reservation to investigate how these tensions were being resolved, we found that both respondents were engaging with their own unique elaboration of HT theory. The first, George, engaged in a therapeutic discourse that reconfigured HT as a recognizable but malleable term that could help to communicate his “spiritual perspective” on distress and the need for healing in the reservation community. The second, Henry, engaged in a nation‐building discourse that shifted attention away from past colonial military violence toward ongoing systemic oppression and the need for sociostructural change. These two interviews located HT at the heart of important tensions between globalization and indigeneity while opening the door for constructive but critical reflection within AI communities, as well as dialogue with allied social scientists, to consider how emerging discourses surrounding behavioral health disparities might be helpful for promoting healing and/or sociostructural change.

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  • Empirical evidence indicating that cultural trauma impacts health is distributed across different constructs (e.g., collective vs. historical vs. intergenerational trauma), each describing separate aspects of the trauma experience often specific to different cultural groups.

    “Second, the empirical evidence indicating that cultural trauma impacts health (Hartmann and Gone, 2014; Krieg, 2009; Whitbeck et al., 2004) is distributed across different constructs (e.g., collective vs. historical vs. intergenerational trauma), each describing separate aspects of the trauma experience that are often specific to different cultural groups (Sotero, 2006).”

    From Cultural trauma as a fundamental cause of health disparities (2022) · cites this paper as Hartmann and Gone, 2014

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Authors
Hartmann, W. E., & Gone, J. P.
Affiliations
University of Michigan (US)
Corresponding author
Hartmann, William E.
Venue
American Journal of Community Psychology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2014-08-27
Volume
54
Issue
3-4
Pages
274-288
ISSN
  • 0091-0562 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-2770
OpenAlex
W2082483573
Cited by
105
References
40
Citations by year
2026: 27 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 11 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 7 · 2015: 3 · 2014: 1
FWCI
8.09
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • American Journal of Community Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Deep Blue (University of Michigan) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Lemelson Foundation
  • Society for Psychological Anthropology
  • Foundation Medicine
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Social Sciences › Anthropology › Indigenous Cultures and History
Keywords
historical trauma, American Indian communities, medicine men, therapeutic discourse, nation-building discourse, indigeneity, globalization, colonial violence, systemic oppression, behavioral health disparities, healing, community perspectives
MeSH terms
Humans, Indians, North American, Male, Mental Health, Psychological Theory, Social Change, Social Identification, Social Problems, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic, Qualitative Research, Health Status Disparities, Social Theory

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