Joanne Wilmott, Jen Hamer, Damien W. Riggs, Shoshana Rosenberg
{"title":"Healing from intergenerational trauma: narratives of connection, belonging, and truth-telling in two Aboriginal healing camps","authors":"Joanne Wilmott, Jen Hamer, Damien W. Riggs, Shoshana Rosenberg","doi":"10.1080/2201473x.2023.2260547","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473x.2023.2260547","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTAddressing intergenerational trauma caused through the impacts of colonization requires healing processes that are specific to the experiences and needs of First Nations peoples. This paper details an evaluation of two Aboriginal healing camps held in South Australia in 2021 and 2022. The camps focused on supporting members of the Stolen Generations, through a combination of First Nations and western healing practices. This paper details the framework used to structure the camps and provides an analysis of interviews with attendees. For the 2021 camp, nine attendees were interviewed before the camp and eight took part in a follow-up interview after the camp. For the 2022 camp, four attendees took part in a single time point interview. Thematic analysis of the interviews resulted in the development of five interrelated themes, focused on connections, belonging, healing, and truth-telling. The paper concludes by considering what the findings suggest for institutional change and growth in terms of future iterations of the camps, and the importance of First Nations-led opportunities for healing from intergenerational trauma.KEYWORDS: Intergenerational traumahealingStolen GenerationscolonizationFirst Nations AcknowledgementsThe research reported in this paper was approved by the Relationships Australia South Australia internal ethics review committee and the Flinders University Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee #4209.Notes1 Aileen Moreton-Robinson, ‘I Still Call Australia home: Indigenous Belonging and Place in a White Postcolonizing Society’, in Uprootings/Regroundings: Questions of Home and Migration, ed. Sara Ahmed, Claudia Castaeda, Anne-Marie Fortier, and Mimi Sheller (Oxford: Berg, 2003), 131–49.2 Reena Tiwari and John Richard Stephens, ‘Trauma and Healing at Western Australia’s Former Native Missions’, AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 16 (2020): 248–58.3 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Stolen Generations Aged 50 and Over (Canberra: Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2018).4 Leda Sivak, Seth Westhead, Emmalene Richards, Stephen Atkinson, Jenna Richards, Harold Dare, and Ghil’ad Zuckermann, ‘“Language Breathes Life”—Barngarla Community Perspectives on the Wellbeing Impacts of Reclaiming a Dormant Australian Aboriginal Language’, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16 (2019): 3918–25.5 Amanda Kearney, ‘Intimacy and Distance: Indigenous Relationships to Country in Northern Australia’, Ethnos 83 (2018): 172–91.6 Brenda Machosky, ‘Allegory and the Work of Aboriginal Dreaming/Law/Lore’, in Allegory Studies: Contemporary Perspectives, ed. Vladimir Brljak (New York: Routledge, 2021), 190–212.7 Rod Amery, ‘Monitoring the Use of Kaurna’, in Re-Awakening Languages: Theory and Practice in the Revitalisation of Australia’s Indigenous Languages, ed. John Robert Hobson (Sydney: Sydney University Press, 2010), 56–66.8 Donna ","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135769926","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorizing the Adivasi’s absence in partition histories: indigenes, refugees, and the settler state in Dandakaranya forest","authors":"Pankhuree R. Dube","doi":"10.1080/2201473x.2023.2250112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473x.2023.2250112","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88646763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"History curriculum in Arab schools: between teaching and challenging the Israeli history program in Arab schools","authors":"Rabah Halabi","doi":"10.1080/2201473x.2023.2230040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473x.2023.2230040","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77846957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Migrant culture maintenance among the Welsh in Blue Earth County, Minnesota, USA, 1870–1920","authors":"R. Tyler","doi":"10.1080/2201473x.2023.2231744","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473x.2023.2231744","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72668374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s note","authors":"Janne Lahti","doi":"10.1080/2201473X.2023.2231676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2023.2231676","url":null,"abstract":", Chuck Sturtevant discusses a government-led settler project that saw highlands settlers removed to the Amazon frontier to replace local Indigenous peoples. This project, which ran from the 1950s to 1980s, advanced the myth of a national frontier as progression toward modernity","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80501215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Settler colonial theory and Canadian cultural nationalism","authors":"P. Litt","doi":"10.1080/2201473X.2023.2218057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2023.2218057","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines Canadian cultural nationalism since Confederation through the lens of settler colonial theory, engaging with questions arising from this exercise. Along the way it discusses how settler colonial theory meshes with other theoretical perspectives, particularly nationalism theory. The main body of the paper is a historical overview of how settler cultural production colonized Indigenous peoples symbolically from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Appropriation from and stereotyping of Indigenous peoples are analyzed. While these forms of indirect erasure were common, a direct erasure that simply ignored the Indigenous fact was far more prevalent. Nationalist cultural producers focused instead on Eurocivility, settler colonizations of other settlers, and Canada’s dual imperia. Moreover, settler colonialism was not the only form of colonialism influencing cultural nationalism: extractive colonialism affected it as well. Settler cultural discourse changed dramatically in the late twentieth century. Radical shifts in the realpolitik of settler-Indigenous relations and settler morality delegitimized erasure practices. Some cultural producers responded by integrating Indigenous peoples into new formulations of national identity, while others popularized representations of settler guilt. The article concludes with observations on the historicity of these new perspectives and how Canada’s legacy of cultural nationalism might constructively inform decolonization.","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89073476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Red Power, white narrative: founding violence & the invalidation of Indigenous rights","authors":"David W. Everson","doi":"10.1080/2201473x.2023.2221010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473x.2023.2221010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78500791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The settler roots of Plurinational Bolivia: state-sponsored indigenous colonization on Bolivia’s Amazonian ‘frontier’","authors":"Chuck Sturtevant","doi":"10.1080/2201473X.2023.2212951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2023.2212951","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article analyzes a land conflict in Latin America through the lens of settler colonial studies. I focus on an area of the Bolivian Amazon known as the Alto Beni, where a government-sponsored colonization project settled indigenous colonists from the Bolivian highlands in territories occupied by the Mosetén people. This project has led to conflicts over land that continue to this day. I argue that this project continues to reflect the settler colonial logics of the development professionals who designed it, particularly their ideas about the role of Bolivia’s Amazonian ‘frontier’ in the production of a national identity. This involves the circulation of ideologies that cast the settler frontier as a key step on the path toward modernization, both for settlers (who are to be incorporated as citizens of a modernizing Bolivia) and for Mosetenes (who are to be eliminated in order to make room for this process). I conclude by challenging the stark distinction that scholars of settler colonialism make between settler colonialism (particularly as it depends on Anglocentric ideologies of racial classification) and other experiences of colonial oppression (particularly those which involve the circulation of ideas and the production of knowledge).","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86817104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The spectacle of settler colonial urbanism, racialized policing, and Indigenous refusal of white possessive logics","authors":"J. Scherer, Rylan Kafara, J. Koch","doi":"10.1080/2201473X.2023.2195044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2023.2195044","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this article, we explore how the underlying logics of white possession continue to fuel a cycle of state-supported territorial acquisition, enclosure, and expulsion in Edmonton, Alberta’s city center through the recent opening of Rogers Place, a publicly financed $613.7-million arena and home of the National Hockey League’s (NHL) Edmonton Oilers. Drawing from a two-year ethnography, we examine how men’s professional hockey and its related land development projects are powerful mechanisms for bringing a new iteration of settler colonialism to the city, including as hockey fans re-enact a historical racial hierarchy that privileges certain lives over others, and as police enforce this racial project of accumulation and its colonial lines of force with impunity. Our research, moreover, challenges common-sense ideas about the benefits of sports-driven downtown redevelopment, as well as the widespread belief that settler colonialism is an event of the past that occurred outside of cities. Finally, as settlers renew and reproduce lines of power through these processes, we also explore the various ways in which city-center residents refuse white possessive logics in their attempts to transcend the limits of ‘settler-colonial city-making’ and policing, ‘producing urban space in their own right.’ 1","PeriodicalId":46232,"journal":{"name":"Settler Colonial Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73184498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}