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American Indian historical trauma: Anticolonial prescriptions for healing, resilience, and survivance.

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Hartmann, William E., Wendt, Dennis C., Burrage, Rachel L., Pomerville, Andrew, Gone, Joseph P.·2019·American Psychologist
DOI 10.1037/amp0000326PMC PMC6338218
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The American Indian historical trauma (HT) concept is an important precursor to racial trauma (RT) theory that reflects the distinct interests of sovereign Indigenous nations but shares much of the same promise and challenge. Here, that promise and challenge is explored by tracing HT's theoretical development in terms of its anticolonial ambitions and organizing ideas. Three predominant modes of engaging HT were distilled form the literature (HT as a clinical condition, life stressor, and critical discourse), each informing a research program pursuing a different anticolonial ambition (healing trauma, promoting resilience, practicing survivance) organized by distinct ideas about colonization, wellness, and Indigeneity. Through critical reflection on these different ambitions and dialogue of their organizing ideas, conflict between research programs can be mitigated and a more productive anticolonialism realized in psychology and related health fields. Key recommendations emphasized clarifying clinical concepts (e.g., clinical syndrome vs. idiom of distress), disentangling clinical narratives of individual pathology (e.g., trauma) from social narratives of population adversity (e.g., survivance stories), attending to features of settler-colonialism not easily captured by heath indices (e.g., structural violence), and encouraging alignment of anticolonial efforts with constructive critiques establishing conceptual bridges to disciplines that can help to advance psychological understandings of colonization and Indigenous wellness (e.g., postcolonial studies). This conceptual framework was applied to the RT literature to elaborate similar recommendations for advancing RT theory and the interests of ethnic/racial minority populations through engagement with psychology and related health fields. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).

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  • Culturally tailored treatment regimens based in Indigenous systems of knowledge show promising evidence related to improved SUD outcomes.

    “culturally tailored treatment regimens based in Indigenous systems of knowledge show promising evidence related to improved SUD outcomes (Brave Heart et al., 2011; Hartmann et al., 2019).”

    From Culturally tailored substance use interventions for Indigenous people of North America: a systematic review (2023) · cites this paper as Hartmann et al., 2019

    In “Promoting Resilience” (page unavailable), the paper says programs incorporating American Indian cultural forms have improved community health outcomes. In “HT as a Life Stressor” (page unavailable), it describes culturally informed programs intended to prevent substance use. Neither passage provides evidence that culturally tailored treatment improves outcomes for people with substance use disorders, as the citing sentence claims. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Authors
Hartmann, W. E., Wendt, D. C., Burrage, R. L., Pomerville, A., & Gone, J. P.
Affiliations
  • University of Washington Bothell (US)
  • McGill University (CA)
  • University of Michigan (US)
ORCID
Venue
American Psychologist
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
2019-01
Volume
74
Issue
1
Pages
6-19
ISSN
  • 0003-066X (ISSN-L)
  • 1935-990X
DOI
10.1037/amp0000326
PMC
PMC6338218
OpenAlex
W2911155103
Cited by
197
References
82
Citations by year
2026: 38 · 2025: 29 · 2024: 19 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 32 · 2021: 25 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 4
FWCI
18.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
Locations
  • American Psychologist (publishedVersion, other-oa)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institutes of Health (T32 AA007455)
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
anti-colonialism, indigenous healing practices, resilience, survivance, settler colonialism, Indigenous wellness, indigeneity, structural violence, postcolonial studies, Indigenous sovereignty
MeSH terms
Historical Trauma, Humans, Indians, North American, Psychological Theory, Colonialism, Resilience, Psychological, Racism

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