Surviving colonization and the quest for healing: NarrativE and resilience among California Indian tribal leaders

Transcultural Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 112-133

  Ramirez, Lucio Cloud ^a   Hammack, Phillip L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

colonialism; historical trauma; identity; indigenous; narrative; resilience

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; COPING BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGY; SURVIVOR; UNITED STATES; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; ADAPTATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY; COMMUNITY; ECOLOGY; IDENTITY; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INHERITANCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MENTAL STRESS; NARRATIVE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; PSYCHOLOGIST; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RELIGION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; STRENGTH; SURVIVAL;

CALIFORNIA; COLONIALISM; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVORS;

EID: 84893102412     PISSN: 13634615     EISSN: 14617471     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1363461513520096     Document Type: Article

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