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Self Care and Historic Trauma in Victim Services
What is Historical Trauma (HT)? Historical Trauma is a term conceived by Maria Yellow Horse Braveheart, a Hunkpapa/Oglala Lakota social worker and mental health expert. Initially, Braveheart introduced the term as Indigenous Historical Trauma (IHT) in order to describe an intergenerational trauma passed down from one generation to another due to the impacts of colonization…