How residential school trauma of previous generations continues to tear through Indigenous families – CBC

Jun 04, 2021

Trauma can have have physical and mental effects for six generations, Indigenous health experts say

Catherine Crow Eagle was a young girl in the mid 1930s when she was forced to enter the Sacred Heart Residential School in Alberta. The physical and mental trauma she experienced never disappeared. Years later, as a mother of 10, Crow Eagle saw all her children be forcibly removed by child care authorities and placed in foster care.

Her youngest, Adam North Peigan, was just one at the time. He didn’t see his family again until he was an adult. That loneliness created a new cycle of despair which included suicide attempts, drug abuse and alcoholism.

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