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The Historical Trauma Theory By Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart

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The researchers have used various components trauma theory to study the literature in such as trauma of memory and forgetting, narrating trauma, trauma of displacement and mastery of trauma. However, historical trauma is not yet discussed thoroughly in literature-based. This study will give a new insight to literature. The Historical Trauma Theory is developed by Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart when she studied Lakota people who undergo boarding school period. She focused on the group who undergo traumatic events that correlated with massive group trauma across generations. Examples of the group are Lakota people and other Native populations, Jewish Holocaust survivors, and Japanese American internment camp. It is important to the society to
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