Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Kootenai That her dispossessed ancestors’ homestead

That her dispossessed ancestors’ homestead

gave them a list

Washoe to Welsh

the same eyes

Mihesuah grew up hearing the stories of her ancestors

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies Kootenai That her dispossessed ancestors’ homesteadIn Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communities on Turtle Island. Drawing on a decolonizing approach, which puts the "soul wound" of colonialism at the centre, Linklater engages ten Indigenous health care practitioners in a dialogue regarding Indigenous notions of wellness and wholistic health, critiques of psychiatry and psychiatric diagnoses, and Indigenous approaches to helping people through