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Menakem, R. (2017). My grandmother’s hands: Racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies. Central Recovery Press.
Read chapters 1,2, 3, 4 (41-115pgs).

Films Media Group. (2011). Indian school: Stories of survival [Video]. Films On Demand. Retrieved October 16, 2023, from https://fod.infobase.com/PortalPlaylists.aspx?wID=102577&xtid=50410.
Proposing to “kill the Indian and save the man,” U.S. Army Captain Richard H. Pratt envisioned an educational system that would erase the Native American culture and “civilize” the continent’s Indigenous people. His chosen method? The Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania, founded by Pratt in 1879, was a cruel model for other institutions in the U.S. and Canada, subjecting children to abuse and alienation from their families, languages, and religions. This film combines archival materials with interviews.

Fleming, A. M. (Director). (2010, Sep 10). I was a child of Holocaust survivors [Video/DVD]. National Film Board of Canada.

PBS Newshour. (2015). Study Finds PTSD effects may linger in body chemistry of next generation.
New research on survivors of the Holocaust shows how catastrophic events can alter our body chemistry, and how these changes can transmit to the next generation. The result? Our children may suffer the effects of a traumatic event they have never witnessed. NewsHour’s Stephen Fee has the story.

Srikanth, P., & Pusapati, A. (2023). Multigenerational trauma: It did not start with you, but it must end with you. Journal of Integrated Health Sciences 11(1),83-84. doi: 10.4103/jihs.jihs_10_23
Multigenerational trauma (MGT) is the impact of traumas experienced throughout life cycle stages, which can be passed down through generations and can be inherited. This impact can affect biological, psychological, social, and vocational functioning among trauma survivors, affecting their descendants.