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For the crimes against the world that the federal government has done

It is only fair that the people have the right to self government and self determination no matter what

Because they deserve the same treatment as anyone else because at the end of they day they are still human and nothing will change that

The government needs to help the indigenouse more with establishing relationships and being able to have respect for for one another

Because while the government might have already helped the trauma it's still is ongoing and so they need to do more than they already have till they made up for the time lost

While there's the problems in the present there's even more problems that occurred way in the past regarding colonialism and indigenouse people in canada

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ntergenerational trauma is trauma that has been passed down more than 100 years 

The residential schools were a massive oppression and there memory still is for indigenous people and these schools in the past were

Supported by the canadian government and caused indigenouse children to be isolated from there families and people they know and communities in general

These schools were under the the idea that it was to prepare the indigenouse to canadian culture and society

This was a act of cultural genocide done by the federal government

The administrators of the residential school system

When the generation left the institutions they had no way to fit and or cope in either world and culture

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indigenous and metis in canada have the highest suicide rate in canada indigenouse people in canada make up 4.9% of canadas population

suicides and self inflicted injuries are one of the biggest reasons for death among indigenous communities youth and adults up to 44 years of age

for first nations the suicide rate is triple the national average and for metis its double the national average and for inuit its 9 times worst

and in general indigenouse populations have a vunrability to trauma and such even more

Intergenerational trauma

Indigenous people have experienced, and may continue to experience, collective trauma stemming from colonization, the effects of which are passed on from one generation to the next; this is referred to as intergenerational trauma. Colonization led to the forced settlement of nomadic tribes, relocation from traditional settlements, forced removal of children from their homes into residential schools or non-Indigenous homes or orphanages (“Sixties Scoop”)

Colonization led to losses of culture, traditional values, and family stability, as it was made impossible, in many cases, for parents and Elders to pass along vital cultural knowledge and resilience to children who were taken away. In addition, relocation and settlement took many Indigenous people away from their traditional ways of living and thriving

The child welfare system

The current child welfare system continues to be especially traumatic for Indigenous youth. In Canada, 52% of children in foster care are Indigenous, while only 7% of children in Canada are Indigenous (Indigenous Services Canada, 2020).

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015) recommends reducing the “over-representation of Indigenous children in the care of child welfare.”

Anyone who has experienced trauma is at greater risk for suicide. Most people receiving treatment for mental health issues have had some form of trauma (Rosenberg, 2011), and trauma places people at higher risk for additional mental health issues such as depression and addiction.

When people have healthy coping mechanisms and strong support systems, they are better equipped to heal from trauma. Not only did acts of colonialism cause trauma in Indigenous people, but it also affected their means of coping with and healing from trauma. This is how intergenerational trauma continues to negatively affect generation after generation of Indigenous people today (Linklater, 2014; Haskell & Randell, 2009).

People who have experienced trauma will cope with it in some way, whether they are aware of it or not, and some ways of coping may contribute to suicide risk.

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Although numerous historically traumatic events occurred earlier, the 19th century in Canada was marked by government policies to assimilate Aboriginal peoples based on the assumption that Whites were inherently superior to the “Indians” they considered to be savage and uncivilized. The Indian Residential School (IRS) system was one of the key mechanisms by which the government attempted to achieve their goals of eliminating their “Indian problem” (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples [RCAP], 1996), which ran from the 1880s until the last school closed in the mid-1990s. By 1930, roughly 75% of all First Nations children between the ages of 7 and 15 attended IRS, as did significant numbers of Métis and Inuit children (Fournier & Crey, 1997). It has been estimated that over 150,000 Aboriginal children in Canada attended IRSs (Barkan, 2003).

Children as young as 3 were forced, by law, to leave their families and communities to live at schools designed to “kill the Indian in the child” (RCAP, 1996). These schools taught Aboriginal children to be ashamed of their languages, cultural beliefs and traditions, and were largely ineffective at providing proper or even adequate education (Deiter, 1999; Friesen & Friesen, 2002). In addition to the significant number of mortalities and children who went “missing” from these schools, many were also victims of chronic mental, physical, and sexual abuses and neglect (RCAP, 1996). Not surprisingly, IRS Survivors have been more likely to suffer a variety of mental and physical health problems compared to Aboriginal adults who did not attend (First Nations Centre, 2005).

examples of historical trauma

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For Indigenous Peoples in Canada, intergenerational trauma has been passed on through generations. Today, it is embedded into the very fabric of some communities. Colonizers first created the harm and compounded the trauma by outlawing the Indigenous culture practices that could heal the harm done in the 1884 amendment to the Indian Act. Therefore, the impact from trauma occurs both as a result of the trauma itself and from the inability to undertake healing practices. What remained was the pain, the inability to heal and all of the accompanying impacts. Family structure, rather than being based on the kinship model where everyone had responsibility for everyone else (sisters and brothers) became based on the learned and conditioned behaviours associated with trauma.

Today, Indigenous communities have long journeys against this systemic trauma.

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in the residential schools violent things and just harm were done to students which carries the risk that if any of the students would witness something like that which they allways would

would cause the witness to face risks that are physically phycologically and those would be passed down to the next generation thus causing intergenerational trauma

This is only one of the many ways that they would be heavily impacted through the use of the residential schools

Indigenouse people have always shown strong culture and strong resilience by continuing their culture

Like language subsistence lifestyles there spirituality and ceremonies

Indigenouse cultures have always showed great strength even when faced with great conflict

But even with great strength some of the things they experience badly is substance abuse depression low self esteem anxiety self esteem can be low and can have suicidal thinking and anger 

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residential schools were a cruel things done and the examples of how bad it was would be the kamloops indian residential school and the marieval indian school the kamloops school has a potiential of 215 indian children graves at the school and at the marieval its 751 graves

The revelations reopened wounds caused by the erasure of the cultures and systematic abuse at these institutions, a exacerbated by present-day discrimination and stigma. While most of the current generation of Indigenous peoples have not been forced to attend residential school, many still experience various racist policies, especially in the child welfare system. Consequently, many regularly face racism in their daily lives and are trying to heal from the collective trauma experienced by their relatives and ancestors.

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intergenerational trauma

talking about the problem in the states

indigenouse populations are diverse in language culture and histories and because of it manny experinces and responses to the historical trauma have come out

in the present in these populations historical trauma is defined as cumulative emotional and phychologicaly wounding over there lifespans and just generations