Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart is a Native American social worker associate professor and mental health expert She is best known for develop
Dre Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart et les 6 étapes qui ont mené la tribu des Lakota à vivre un trauma historique, devenu intergenerationnel
« 1st Contact: life shock, genocide, no time for grief, a Colonization Period in which the introduction of disease and alcohol occurred, and traumatic events such as Wounded Knee Massacre.
Economic competition: which resulted in loss from spiritual and tangible dimensions.
The occurrence of Invasion/War Period, which involved extermination and refugee symptoms.
A Subjugation/Reservation Period where confinement and translocation occur, a relationship of forced dependency on oppressor is formed, and a lack of security occur.
Boarding School Period: in which the family system is destroyed, beatings, rape, and prohibition of Native language and religion ensue. The lasting effect being ill-preparation for parenting, identity confusion.
Forced Relocation and Termination Period: transfer to urban areas, prohibition of religious freedom, racism and being viewed as second class; loss of governmental system and community. »