Healing Intergenerational Trauma
Understanding the traumatic history and educational experience of American Indians has profound implications for school districts that are engaged in transforming systems to educate and support American Indian students. Through NIEA’s work in this area, NIEA explores how historically traumatic events, especially government-run and government-sponsored religious boarding schools, have led to the widespread contemporary social ills that are prevalent in Indian country today. Through our multi-part professional development trainings, individuals can not only learn how multiple traumatic experiences can lead to improper brain development and impaired learning and socio-emotional abilities in children but also focus on creating trauma-informed environments that meet the social and emotional needs of Native students.