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  • Trauma can be passed down through generations

    Sasha Lavoie, Campus Mental Health Strategy, University of Calgary|Updated Nov 22, 2021

    CALGARY, Alb.-Traumas experienced by Indigenous Peoples due to residential schools and colonization can be passed down through generations, even among those now living in a "non-trauma environment," says Métis/Cree traditional knowledge keeper and ceremonialist Kerrie Moore. Moore is an integrative healing therapist and wellness Elder in the Faculty of Social Work and Writing Symbols Lodge at the University of Calgary. This, she says, is called intergenerational trauma. In...