- Location
- Virtual - Zoom
- Series/Type
- Community Outreach Event
- Dates
- April 8, 2022 from 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Links
Talk Abstract: The U.S. American Indian boarding school era of the 1870s to the 1930s resulted in generations of children being removed from their families and communities with devastating impacts on American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people. I use data from the Honor Project, a health survey of urban, two-spirit AIAN (n=447) to examine the impact of boarding schools on individual health outcomes and the pathways through which traumas may transmit intergenerationally, demonstrating that the type and magnitude of exposure to boarding schools appears to differentially impact physical health. I also aim to elucidate strategies for interrupting the health impacts of historical trauma.
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