Intergenerational trauma, settler colonial genocide & residential schools in Canada-Dr. Tricia Logan

Описание: Unspoken History Conference - What happens to the unspoken? Long-term consequences of troubling experiences.
March 17th & 18th, 2022

Lecture 3

Dr. Tricia Logan

Settler Colonial Genocide in Canada has carried on systematically through church, government and corporate structures for over five-hundred years. It takes many different forms and occupies a number of inter-related systems through social, political and economic structures and ideologies. In Canada, there is deserved and focused attention especially, on the systematic, intergenerational violence of the Indian residential schools, forced relocations, missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and the child
welfare system. In the residential school system alone, the schools operated in Canada for over 150 years and the last one closed in 1996. Some former students and survivors had three, four or five generations of their family attend the schools. The schools have become notorious in Canada for perpetrating high rates of physical and sexual abuse, student death, neglect and forced removal of language and culture. First Nations, Métis and Inuit nations across Canada have been living with serious economic, social, mental, physical and spiritual impacts of intergenerational trauma and the schools since the 1800s or arguably well before that time. It has also been the survivors of the schools, community Elders, knowledge holders and teachers who have simultaneously led movements for intergenerational healing and resurgence. This presentation will discuss both the legacies of intergenerational trauma in Indigenous communities in Canada and how Indigenous peoples have led healing movements to address the impacts of the trauma in their own kinship relationships and their communities.

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