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Running head: TERM PAPER History Term Paper Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Title Date TERM PAPER What does the given document convey about historical trauma and the crippling limitations of achieving an ideal democratic Canadian nation? Historical trauma is the impact brought about intergenerationally on indigenous people by colonization (LaBoucane et al, 2017). Experiences shared across different generations and communities can lead to cumulative psychological and emotional wounds which can then be carried across several generations, this concept is known as historical trauma. Effects of the traumas that are inflicted on some groups of people because of their ethnicity, race, or creed tend to remain lingering on their descendants’ souls. Many people in those communities, therefore, end up going through high levels of both physical and mental illness, erosion in their community structures and families, and even substance abuse (LaBoucane et al, 2017). A persistent cycle of trauma ends up destroying communities and families thus entirely threatening the vibrancy of cultures. Historical trauma entails what happened in the past and also what is happening in the present as a result of the past occurrences. Through the colonial history of Canada as a nation, indigeneity has often led to marginalization, the Sikh families lived in exclusion through decisions that promoted social disorder. Historical trauma leads to the development of powerlessness, hopelessness, an ...
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